Transliteration is the task of converting a word from one alphabetic script to another. We present a novel, substring-based approach to transliteration, inspired by phrasebased mo...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
While phrase-based statistical machine translation systems currently deliver state-of-theart performance, they remain weak on word order changes. Current phrase reordering models ...
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
Weighted tree transducers have been proposed as useful formal models for representing syntactic natural language processing applications, but there has been little description of ...