Patents by Inventor Yajuan Lu

Yajuan Lu 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).

  • Publication number: 20070016397
    Abstract: An approach for extracting collocation translations is presented. The approach includes constructing a collocation translation model using monolingual source and target language corpora. An expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate the collocation translation model. The collocation translation model can be used later to extract a collocation translation dictionary. The collocation translation model and dictionary can be used later for further natural language processing, such as sentence translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yajuan Lu, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20060282255
    Abstract: A system and method of extracting collocation translations is presented. The methods include constructing a collocation translation model using monolingual source and target language corpora as well as bilingual corpus, if available. The collocation translation model employs an expectation maximization algorithm with respect to contextual words surrounding collocations. The collocation translation model can be used later to extract a collocation translation dictionary. Optional filters based on context redundancy and/or bi-directional translation constrain can be used to ensure that only highly reliable collocation translations are included in the dictionary. The constructed collocation translation model and the extracted collocation translation dictionary can be used later for further natural language processing, such as sentence translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yajuan Lu, Jianfeng Gao, Ming Zhou, John Chen, Mu Li