Empirical Methods for Splitting Compound Words with Application to Machine Translation
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1. A method comprising:
- identifying one or more split options for a compounded word in a source language, each split option having a translation in a target language;
ranking the compounded word and the one or more split options; and
selecting a translation option from the compounded word and the one or more split options.
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Abstract
A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a compound splitting module to split compounded words for more accurate translation. The compound splitting module select a best split for translation by the MT system.
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying one or more split options for a compounded word in a source language, each split option having a translation in a target language; ranking the compounded word and the one or more split options; and selecting a translation option from the compounded word and the one or more split options. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus comprising:
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a split generator to identify one or more split options for a compounded word in a source language, each split option having a translation in a target language; a module to generate ranking information for the compounded word and the one or more split options; and a split selector to rank the compounded word and the one or more split options based on the ranking information and select a translation option from the compounded word and the one or more split options. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An article comprising a machine-readable medium including machine-executable instructions, the instructions operative to cause a machine to:
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identify one or more split options for a compounded word in a source language, each split option having a translation in a target language; rank the compounded word and the one or more split options; and select a translation option from the compounded word and the one or more split options. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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