Patent Document ID: 8886518
Application ID: 11501189

Base Claim:
1. A method for capitalizing translated text comprising: executing a translator module stored on a device to automatically translate a capitalized source text to a target text, wherein prior to translation the capitalized source text is converted to lower case and then translated; and capitalizing the target text according to capitalization information in the capitalized source text and the target text, wherein the step of capitalizing the target text according to capitalization information in the capitalized source text includes: generating one or more capitalization configurations for the target text; computing a configuration probability for each of the one or more capitalization configurations, the configuration probability computed from capitalization information in the capitalized source text and at least one capitalization model feature function based on an alignment between the capitalized source text and the target text or the capitalized source text and the capitalization configuration; and selecting the best capitalization configuration based on the highest configuration probability.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising capitalizing the target text using conditional random fields.