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Machine assisted translation tools

  • US 5,724,593 A
  • Filed: 01/24/1997
  • Issued: 03/03/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A translation memory comprising:

  • a computer usable medium having computer readable data embodied therein, the computer readable data further comprising;

    an aligned file having a number of source language text segments encoded in a computer readable format, each of the source language text segments positioned at a unique address in the computer usable medium and paired with a target language text segment encoded in computer readable format;

    an inverted index comprising a listing of source language letter n-grams, wherein each listed n-gram includes an associated entry for an entropy weight for the listed letter n-gram, a count of the number of source language text segments in the aligned file that include an entry for the listed letter n-gram, and a pointer to a unique location in the computer usable memory; and

    a posting vector file having a posting vector associated with each listed n-gram in the inverted index, each posting vector positioned at one of the unique locations pointed to in the inverted index, each posting vector including;

    i) a plurality of document identification numbers each corresponding to a selected one of the source language text strings in the aligned file, andii) a number of entropy weight values, each of the number of weight values associated with one document identification number.

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