Patents by Inventor Madalina Barbaiani

Madalina Barbaiani 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).

  • Method for aligning sentences at the word level enforcing selective contiguity constraints
    Patent number: 9020804
    Abstract: An alignment method includes, for a source sentence in a source language, identifying whether the sentence includes at least one candidate term comprising a contiguous subsequence of words of the source sentence. A target sentence in a target language is aligned with the source sentence. This includes developing a probabilistic model which models conditional probability distributions for alignments between words of the source sentence and words of the target sentence and generating an optimal alignment based on the probabilistic model, including, where the source sentence includes the at least one candidate term, enforcing a contiguity constraint which requires that all the words of the target sentence which are aligned with an identified candidate term form a contiguous subsequence of the target sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Madalina Barbaiani, Nicola Cancedda, Christopher R. Dance, Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas, Tamás Gaál, Eric Gaussier
  • METHOD FOR ALIGNING SENTENCES AT THE WORD LEVEL ENFORCING SELECTIVE CONTIGUITY CONSTRAINTS
    Publication number: 20080300857
    Abstract: An alignment method includes, for a source sentence in a source language, identifying whether the sentence includes at least one candidate term comprising a contiguous subsequence of words of the source sentence. A target sentence in a target language is aligned with the source sentence. This includes developing a probabilistic model which models conditional probability distributions for alignments between words of the source sentence and words of the target sentence and generating an optimal alignment based on the probabilistic model, including, where the source sentence includes the at least one candidate term, enforcing a contiguity constraint which requires that all the words of the target sentence which are aligned with an identified candidate term form a contiguous subsequence of the target sentence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Madalina Barbaiani, Nicola Cancedda, Christopher R. Dance, Szilard Zsolt Fazekas, Tamas Gaal, Eric Gaussier