METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROCESSING A BILINGUAL DATABASE

摘要

Aligned corpora (206, CORPE, CORPF) are generated or received from an external source. Each corpus comprises a set of portions aligned with corresponding portions of the other corpus, for example, so that aligned portions are nominally translations of one another in two natural languages. A statistical database (210) is compiled. An evaluation module (212) calculates correlation scores for pairs of words chosen one from each corpus. Given a pair of text portions (one in each language) the evaluation module (212) combines word pair correlation scores to obtain an alignment score for the text portions. These alignment scores can be used to verify a translation (230) an/or to modify the aligned corpora (206) to remove improbable alignments.