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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model
- Patent Title (中): 双语字对齐方法及装置,双语字对齐模式训练方法及装置
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Application No.: US11678364Application Date: 2007-02-23
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Publication No.: US07827027B2Publication Date: 2010-11-02
- Inventor: Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Zhanyi Liu
- Applicant: Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Zhanyi Liu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: CN200610058072 20060228
- Main IPC: G06F17/28
- IPC: G06F17/28

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.
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