Patent Document ID: 10067939
Application ID: 15401126

Base Claim:
1. A machine translation method comprising: converting, using a processor, a source sentence written in a first language to language-independent information using an encoder for the first language, information for which is stored in non-volatile and volatile memory; and converting, using the processor, the language-independent information to a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence and written in a second language different from the first language using a decoder for the second language, information for which is stored in the nonvolatile and volatile memory, in response to a similarity being higher than a preset threshold, wherein the similarity is determined from a comparison between pixel values of the language-independent information of the source sentence and pixel values of the language-independent information of the target sentence; wherein the encoder for the first language is trained to output language-independent information corresponding to the target sentence in response to an input of the source sentence, using the processor, wherein the processor communicates with the nonvolatile and volatile memory via a bus.

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Claim 3:
3. The machine translation method of claim 1 , wherein the encoder for the first language is further trained to encode a first training sentence included in parallel corpus data in the first language and the second language to output training language-independent information; and the training language-independent information corresponds to information output by encoding a second training sentence included in the parallel corpus data in an encoder for the second language, the second training sentence corresponding to the first training sentence.