Patent 7295962 was granted and assigned to University of Southern California on November, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a translation memory (TMEM) and a decoder. The decoder may translate an input text segment using a statistical MT decoding algorithm, for example, a greedy decoding algorithm. The system may generate a cover of the input text segment from text segments in the TMEM. The decoder may use the cover as an initial translation in the decoding operation.