Patents by Inventor Michel A. Simard
Michel A. Simard 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).
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Patent number: 11977570Abstract: Content of different formats may be sourced from various data sources such as content servers and ingested into a data integration server by an ingestion broker embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The ingestion broker may normalize the content of different formats into a uniform representation that can be indexed and delivered across multiple digital channels for a variety of applications. The normalized content may be analyzed and semantic metadata may be determined from the normalized content. The normalized content can be semantically enriched by associating the semantic metadata and the like with the content. The semantic metadata can be stored in a semantic index that can be used for searching via the data integration server. During search, the semantic metadata can be instantiated as facets for user navigation and refinement of search criteria and additional semantic relationships can be assigned to the words in the normalized content.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULCInventors: Pascal Dimassimo, Steve Pettigrew, Martin Brousseau, Charles-Olivier Simard, Eric Williams, Francis Lacroix, Alex Dowgailenko, Agostino Deligia, Jean-Michel Texier
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Publication number: 20150051896Abstract: A technique for providing grammatical and semantic sense of statistical machine translation systems to assisting in reviewing tasks, provides for the construction of hypothesis generators and evaluators using sparse data, with the use of an edit distance metric for generating alignments of the sparse data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Michel Simard, George Foster
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Patent number: 8663800Abstract: Methods are disclosed for preparing lignin from lignocellulosic biomass using rapid full or partial pressure reduction to separate and pulverize the lignin without fouling the equipment and with improved energy recovery.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Renmatix, Inc.Inventors: Kiran Kadam, Michel A. Simard, George Steven Dowe
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Publication number: 20140030524Abstract: Methods are disclosed for preparing lignin from lignocellulosic biomass using rapid full or partial pressure reduction to separate and pulverize the lignin without fouling the equipment and with improved energy recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Renmatix, Inc.Inventors: Kiran Kadam, Michel A. Simard, George Steven Dowe
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Patent number: 8594992Abstract: This application is related to a means and a method for facilitating the use of translation memories by aligning words of an input source language sentence with the correspondent translated words in target language sentence. More specifically, this invention relates to such a means and method where there is an enhanced translation memory comprising an alignment function.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Inventors: Roland Kuhn, Cyril Goutte, Pierre Isabelle, Michel Simard
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Patent number: 8404051Abstract: Methods are disclosed for providing lignin product of a small particle size for improving burning efficiency and for avoiding typical equipment fouling problems while maximizing energy recovery.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Renmatix, Inc.Inventors: Krishnan V. Iyer, Michel A. Simard, Kiran Kadam
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Patent number: 8317928Abstract: Methods are disclosed for providing lignin product of a small particle size for improving burning efficiency and for avoiding typical equipment fouling problems while maximizing energy recovery.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Renmatix, Inc.Inventors: Krishan V. Iyer, Michel A. Simard, Kiran Kadam
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Publication number: 20120282466Abstract: Methods are disclosed for providing lignin product of a small particle size for improving burning efficiency and for avoiding typical equipment fouling problems while maximizing energy recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: RENMATIX, INC.Inventors: Krishnan V. Iyer, Michel A. Simard, Kiran Kadam
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Publication number: 20120282465Abstract: Methods are disclosed for preparing lignin from lignocellulosic biomass using rapid full or partial pressure reduction to separate and pulverize the lignin without fouling the equipment and with improved energy recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: RenmatixInventors: Kiran Kadam, Michel A. Simard, George Steven Dowe
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Publication number: 20120282467Abstract: Methods are disclosed for providing lignin product of a small particle size for improving burning efficiency and for avoiding typical equipment fouling problems while maximizing energy recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: Renmatix, Inc.Inventors: Krishnan V. Iyer, Michel A. Simard, Kiran Kadam
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Publication number: 20110093254Abstract: This application is related to a means and a method for facilitating the use of translation memories by aligning words of an input source language sentence with the correspondent translated words in target language sentence. More specifically, this invention relates to such a means and method where there is an enhanced translation memory comprising an alignment function.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Roland Kuhn, Cyril Goutte, Pierre Isabelle, Michel Simard
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Patent number: 7680646Abstract: In a translation apparatus, a translation memory (32) stores (i) source language target language translation unit pairs and (ii) structural information for at least some source language translation units indicating a structural position within a document from which the source language translation unit was derived. A comparator (30) compares a new source language translation unit with source language translation units stored in the translation memory. Each comparison includes (i) a textual comparison and (ii) a structural comparison between an identified structural position within a source language document (10) from which the new source language translation unit was derived and the structural information for the source language translation unit stored in the translation memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Veronika Lux-Pogodalla, Michel Simard
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Patent number: 7672830Abstract: Methods are disclosed for performing proper word alignment that satisfy constraints of coverage and transitive closure. Initially, a translation matrix which defines word association measures between source and target words of a corpus of bilingual translations of source and target sentences is computed. Subsequently, in a first method, the association measures in the translation matrix are factorized and orthogonalized to produce cepts for the source and target words, which resulting matrix factors may then be, optionally, multiplied to produce an alignment matrix. In a second method, the association measures in the translation matrix are thresholded, and then closed by transitivity, to produce an alignment matrix, which may then be, optionally, factorized to produce cepts. The resulting cepts or alignment matrices may then be used by any number of natural language applications for identifying words that are properly aligned.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Cyril Goutte, Michel Simard, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier, Arne Mauser
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Publication number: 20090326913Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a means for automatically post-editing a translated text. A source language text is translated into an initial target language text. This initial target language text is then post-edited by an automatic post-editor into an improved target language text. The automatic post-editor is trained on a sentence aligned parallel corpus created from sentence pairs T? and T, where T? is an initial training translation of a source training language text, and T is second, independently derived, training translation of a source training language text.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Michel Simard, Pierre Isabelle, George Foster, Cyril Goutte, Roland Kuhn
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Patent number: 7536295Abstract: A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language includes receiving the source text in the first language and accessing a library of bi-fragments, each of the bi-fragments including a text fragment from the first language and a text fragment from the second language, at least some of the bi-fragments comprising non-contiguous bi-fragments in which at least one of the text fragment from the first language and the text fragment from the second language comprises a non-contiguous fragment.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Michel Simard, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20070150257Abstract: A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language includes receiving the source text in the first language and accessing a library of bi-fragments, each of the bi-fragments including a text fragment from the first language and a text fragment from the second language, at least some of the bi-fragments comprising non-contiguous bi-fragments in which at least one of the text fragment from the first language and the text fragment from the second language comprises a non-contiguous fragment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Nicola Cancedda, Bruno Cavestro, Marc Dymetman, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Michel Simard, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20060190241Abstract: Methods are disclosed for performing proper word alignment that satisfy constraints of coverage and transitive closure. Initially, a translation matrix which defines word association measures between source and target words of a corpus of bilingual translations of source and target sentences is computed. Subsequently, in a first method, the association measures in the translation matrix are factorized and orthogonalized to produce cepts for the source and target words, which resulting matrix factors may then be, optionally, multiplied to produce an alignment matrix. In a second method, the association measures in the translation matrix are thresholded, and then closed by transitivity, to produce an alignment matrix, which may then be, optionally, factorized to produce cepts. The resulting cepts or alignment matrices may then be used by any number of natural language applications for identifying words that are properly aligned.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Cyril Goutte, Michel Simard, Kenji Yamada, Eric Gaussier, Arne Mauser
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Publication number: 20060136193Abstract: In a translation apparatus, a translation memory (32) stores (i) source language target language translation unit pairs and (ii) structural information for at least some source language translation units indicating a structural position within a document from which the source language translation unit was derived. A comparator (30) compares a new source language translation unit with source language translation units stored in the translation memory. Each comparison includes (i) a textual comparison and (ii) a structural comparison between an identified structural position within a source language document (10) from which the new source language translation unit was derived and the structural information for the source language translation unit stored in the translation memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Veronika Lux-Pogodalla, Michel Simard