Patents by Inventor Zhanyi Liu

Zhanyi Liu 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).

  • Method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model, method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment
    Patent number: 7844447
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for training bilingual word alignment model, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model for a first language and a second language, using a bilingual corpus of the first and second languages; training a bilingual word alignment model for the second language and a third language, using a bilingual corpus of the second and third languages; and estimating a bilingual word alignment model for the first language and the third language, based on said bilingual word alignment model for the first and second languages and said bilingual word alignment model for the second and third languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Haifeng Wang, Zhanyi Liu, Hua Wu
  • Method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model
    Patent number: 7827027
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for bilingual word alignment, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model using a word-aligned labeled bilingual corpus; word-aligning a plurality of bilingual sentence pairs in a unlabeled bilingual corpus using said bilingual word alignment model; determining whether the word alignment of each of said plurality of bilingual sentence pairs is correct, and if it is correct, adding the bilingual sentence pair into the labeled bilingual corpus and removing the bilingual sentence pair from the unlabeled bilingual corpus; retraining the bilingual word alignment model using the expanded labeled bilingual corpus; and re-word-aligning the remaining bilingual sentence pairs in the unlabeled bilingual corpus using the retrained bilingual word alignment model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhanyi Liu
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A TRANSLATION AND MACHINE TRANSLATION
    Publication number: 20080262829
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for generating a translation and machine translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Zhanyi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BILINGUAL WORD ALIGNMENT, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING BILINGUAL WORD ALIGNMENT MODEL
    Publication number: 20070203689
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for bilingual word alignment, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model using a word-aligned labeled bilingual corpus; word-aligning a plurality of bilingual sentence pairs in a unlabeled bilingual corpus using said bilingual word alignment model; determining whether the word alignment of each of said plurality of bilingual sentence pairs is correct, and if it is correct, adding the bilingual sentence pair into the labeled bilingual corpus and removing the bilingual sentence pair from the unlabeled bilingual corpus; retraining the bilingual word alignment model using the expanded labeled bilingual corpus; and re-word-aligning the remaining bilingual sentence pairs in the unlabeled bilingual corpus using the retrained bilingual word alignment model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hua WU, Haifeng Wang, Zhanyi Liu
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING BILINGUAL WORD ALIGNMENT MODEL, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BILINGUAL WORD ALIGNMENT
    Publication number: 20070203690
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for training bilingual word alignment model, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model for a first language and a second language, using a bilingual corpus of the first and second languages; training a bilingual word alignment model for the second language and a third language, using a bilingual corpus of the second and third languages; and estimating a bilingual word alignment model for the first language and the third language, based on said bilingual word alignment model for the first and second languages and said bilingual word alignment model for the second and third languages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Haifeng Wang, Zhanyi Liu, Hua Wu