Patents by Inventor David R. Talbot

David R. Talbot has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Compound splitting
    Patent number: 9075792
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for decompounding compound words are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a token that includes a sequence of characters, identifying two or more candidate sub-words that are constituents of the token, and one or more morphological operations that are required to transform the sub-words into the token, where at least one of the morphological operations involves a use of a non-dictionary word, and determining a cost associated with each sub-word and a cost associated with each morphological operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Dai, Klaus Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ashok C. Popat, David R. Talbot
  • Compound Splitting
    Publication number: 20110202330
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for decompounding compound words are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a token that includes a sequence of characters, identifying two or more candidate sub-words that are constituents of the token, and one or more morphological operations that are required to transform the sub-words into the token, where at least one of the morphological operations involves a use of a non-dictionary word, and determining a cost associated with each sub-word and a cost associated with each morphological operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Dai, Klaus Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ashok C. Popat, David R. Talbot