Patents by Inventor Martine Smets

Martine 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).

  • Linguistically informed statistical models of constituent structure for ordering in sentence realization for a natural language generation system
    Patent number: 7346493
    Abstract: The present invention is a tree ordering component within a sentence realization system which receives an unordered syntax tree and generates a ranked list of alternative ordered syntax trees from the unordered syntax tree. The present invention also includes statistical models of constituent structure employed by the tree ordering component in scoring the alternative ordered trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ringger, Michael Gamon, Martine Smets, Simon Corston-Oliver, Robert C. Moore
  • Linguistically informed statistical models of constituent structure for ordering in sentence realization for a natural language generation system
    Publication number: 20040193401
    Abstract: The present invention is a tree ordering component within a sentence realization system which receives an unordered syntax tree and generates a ranked list of alternative ordered syntax trees from the unordered syntax tree. The present invention also includes statistical models of constituent structure employed by the tree ordering component in scoring the alternative ordered trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ringger, Michael Gamon, Martine Smets, Simon Corston-Oliver, Robert C. Moore