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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Syntactically Motivated Word Alignment Spaces
This work is concerned with the space of alignments searched by word alignment systems. We focus on situations where word re-ordering is limited by syntax. We present two new alig...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Diversify and Combine: Improving Word Alignment for Machine Translation on Low-Resource Languages
We present a novel method to improve word alignment quality and eventually the translation performance by producing and combining complementary word alignments for low-resource la...
Bing Xiang, Yonggang Deng, Bowen Zhou
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Portuguese-English Word Alignment: some Experiments
In this paper we describe some studies of Portuguese-English word alignment, focusing on (i) measuring the importance of the coupling between dictionaries and corpus; (ii) assessi...
Diana Santos, Alberto Simões
EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation
We present a method for improving word alignment for statistical syntax-based machine translation that employs a syntactically informed alignment model closer to the translation m...
Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
CICLING
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
A Chunk-Driven Bootstrapping Approach to Extracting Translation Patterns
Abstract. We present a linguistically-motivated sub-sentential alignment system that extends the intersected IBM Model 4 word alignments. The alignment system is chunk-driven and r...
Lieve Macken, Walter Daelemans