This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
This paper presents a general platform, namely synchronous tree sequence substitution grammar (STSSG), for the grammar comparison study in Translational Equivalence Modeling (TEM)...
Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw, She...
We present a new phrase-based conditional exponential family translation model for statistical machine translation. The model operates on a feature representation in which sentenc...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...