Patent 7389222 was granted and assigned to Language Weaver on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Parallelization of word alignment for a text-to-text operation. The training data is divided into multiple groups, and training is carried out of each group on separate processors. Different techniques can be carried out to increase the speed of the processing. The hookups can be done only once for all of multiple different iterations. Moreover, parallel operations can apply only to the counts, since this may be the most time-consuming part.