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Method and system to automatically create content for dictionaries

  • US 8,892,423 B1
  • Filed: 01/10/2011
  • Issued: 11/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method for generating examples for electronic dictionaries to serve as an aid to translation between languages performed by one or more processors, the method comprising:

  • creating an electronic dictionary example by;

    acquiring at least one dictionary entry comprising a headword Wj in a source language and at least one translation Tj1, Tj2, . . . Tjn for the headword Wj in a target language;

    generating a first set comprising possible forms for the headword Wj in the source language and a second set comprising possible forms for each translation Tj1, Tj2, . . . Tjn in the target language;

    searching a corpus of translations, where the corpus of translations is a preexisting corpus of translation sentence pairs, each translation sentence pair comprising a first sentence in the source language and a second sentence in the target language, where the first sentence is a translation of the second sentence, and the searching includes searching at least one first sentence in the source language included in the corpus of translations and searching at least one second sentence in the target language in the corpus of translations;

    identifying in the corpus of translations at least one translation sentence pair, from either the searching of the at least one first sentence in the source language or the searching of the at least one second sentence in the target language, that consists of the first sentence that incorporates the headword Wj, or one of its generated forms, and the second sentence that incorporates the translation Tjn or one of its generated forms; and

    providing the at least one translation sentence pair to a user.

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