We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
We augment a model of translation based on re-ordering nodes in syntactic trees in order to allow alignments not conforming to the original tree structure, while keeping computati...
This paper addresses the task of handling unknown terms in SMT. We propose using source-language monolingual models and resources to paraphrase the source text prior to translatio...
Phrasal segmentation models define a mapping from the words of a sentence to sequences of translatable phrases. We discuss the estimation of these models from large quantities of ...
This paper describes our first participation in the Indian language sub-task of the main Adhoc monolingual and bilingual track in CLEF1 competition. In this track, the task is to...