Patent Document ID: 8326598
Application ID: 12056269

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating a plurality of machine translation systems using a single machine translation engine, the generating including: for each machine translation system of the plurality of machine translation systems, training the machine translation system on differing, randomly sampled portions of a common training corpus; generating a plurality of candidate machine translations, wherein each candidate machine translation of the plurality of candidate machine translations is output from a respective machine translation system of the plurality of machine translation systems; determining a degree of correlation between two or more machine translation systems of the plurality of the machine translation systems; when the degree of correlation between the two or more machine translation systems is less than a threshold indicative of a minimum acceptable gain in translation quality achievable by the two or more machine translation systems, combining the candidate machine translations of the two or more candidate machine translations; and generating a consensus translation based on the combined machine translations.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , where generating the plurality of machine translation systems using the single machine translation engine further comprises: for each machine translation system of the plurality of machine translation systems, generating the machine translation system using the single machine translation engine with one or more unique parameters.