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ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment
Word alignment plays a crucial role in statistical machine translation. Word-aligned corpora have been found to be an excellent source of translation-related knowledge. We present...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment
In this paper we present a confidence measure for word alignment based on the posterior probability of alignment links. We introduce sentence alignment confidence measure and alig...
Fei Huang
COLING
1996
13 years 5 months ago
HMM-Based Word Alignment in Statistical Translation
In this paper, we describe a new model for word alignment in statistical translation and present experimental results. The idea of the model is to make the alignment probabilities...
Stephan Vogel, Hermann Ney, Christoph Tillmann
AMTA
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment
German has a richer system of inflectional morphology than English, which causes problems for current approaches to statistical word alignment. Using Giza++ as a reference implemen...
Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon