Patents by Inventor Nicola Ueffing

Nicola Ueffing 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).

  • Means and a method for training a statistical machine translation system utilizing a posterior probability in an N-best translation list
    Patent number: 8886514
    Abstract: Existing statistical machine translation machines presently require the availability of a given source language text and an equivalent target language text and from target text to train a translation system. The invention proposes training a statistical machine translation system, more specifically it proposes a computer means and method for training a statistical machine translation system using unilingual source language information. The translation system relies on translations with confidence scores calculated as a posterior probability based on the similarity of a good translation hypothesis in an N-best list generated for a source sentence with N?1 other hypotheses in the said N-best list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventor: Nicola Ueffing
  • MEANS AND A METHOD FOR TRAINING A STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090326912
    Abstract: Existing statistical machine translation machines presently require the availability of a given source language text and an equivalent target language text and from target text to train a translation system. The invention proposes training a statistical machine translation system, more specifically it proposes a computer means and method for training a statistical machine translation system using unilingual source language information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventor: Nicola Ueffing