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Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm

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Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm
Selecting the right word translation among several options in the lexicon is a core problem for machine translation. We present a novel approach to this problem that can be trained using only unrelated monolingual corpora and a lexicon. By estimating word translation probabilities using the EM algorithm, we extend upon target language modeling. We construct a word translation model for 3830 German and 6147 English noun tokens, with very promising results.
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight
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Updated 01 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2000
Where AAAI
Authors Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight
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