Patent 9519858 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system is described herein which uses a neural network having an input layer that accepts an input vector and a feature vector. The input vector represents at least part of input information, such as, but not limited to, a word or phrase in a sequence of input words. The feature vector provides supplemental information pertaining to the input information. The neural network produces an output vector based on the input vector and the feature vector. In one implementation, the neural network is a recurrent neural network. Also described herein are various applications of the system, including a machine translation application.