Patents by Inventor Martine M. S. A. Smets

Martine M. S. A. Smets 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).

  • Machine translation using learned word associations without referring to a multi-lingual human authored dictionary of content words
    Patent number: 7356457
    Abstract: A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in the first language are associated with words in the second language. A first syntactic structure for a sentence from the first text is aligned with a second syntactic structure for a sentence in the second text based on the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary of content words. The association list is also used during translations. Specifically, a word in the first language is translated into a word in the second language based on an entry in the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary that contains content words. Thus, training and translation are performed without the need for a bilingual dictionary of content words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jessie E. Pinkham, Martine M. S. A. Smets
  • Method and apparatus for example-based machine translation with learned word associations
    Publication number: 20040172235
    Abstract: A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in the first language are associated with words in the second language. A first syntactic structure for a sentence from the first text is aligned with a second syntactic structure for a sentence in the second text based on the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary of content words. The association list is also used during translations. Specifically, a word in the first language is translated into a word in the second language based on an entry in the association list without referring to a bilingual dictionary that contains content words. Thus, training and translation are performed without the need for a bilingual dictionary of content words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jessie E. Pinkham, Martine M.S.A. Smets