Method and apparatus for generating normalized representations of strings

• US 20020116169A1
• Filed: 12/18/2000
• Published: 08/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chanod, Jean-Pierre, Gaussier, Eric, Ait-Mokhtar, Salah
• Granted Patent: US 6,983,240 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/268 Morphological analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

A method generates normalized representations of strings, in particular sentences. The method, which can be used for translation, receives an input string. The input string is subjected to a first operation out of a plurality of operating functions for linguistically processing the input string to generate a first normalized representation of the input string that includes linguistic information. The first normalized representation is then subjected to a second operation for replacing linguistic information in the first normalized representation by abstract variables and to generate a second normalized representation.

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