Patents by Inventor Roy W. Tromble

Roy W. Tromble 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).

  • Optimizing parameters for machine translation
    Patent number: 8744834
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for language translation are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes accessing a hypothesis space, where the hypothesis space represents a plurality of candidate translations; performing decoding on the hypothesis space to obtain a translation hypothesis that minimizes an expected error in classification calculated relative to an evidence space; and providing the obtained translation hypothesis for use by a user as a suggested translation in a target translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Shankar Kumar, Roy W. Tromble
  • OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
    Publication number: 20100004920
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for language translation are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes accessing a hypothesis space, where the hypothesis space represents a plurality of candidate translations; performing decoding on the hypothesis space to obtain a translation hypothesis that minimizes an expected error in classification calculated relative to an evidence space; and providing the obtained translation hypothesis for use by a user as a suggested translation in a target translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Shankar Kumar, Roy W. Tromble