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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Automatic word alignment is a key step in training statistical machine translation systems. Despite much recent work on word alignment methods, alignment accuracy increases often ...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
This paper presents an unsupervised approach to learning translation span alignments from parallel data that improves syntactic rule extraction by deleting spurious word alignment...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The state-of-the-art system combination method for machine translation (MT) is the word-based combination using confusion networks. One of the crucial steps in confusion network d...
IICAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Abstract. The approaches previously used for sentence alignment (sentence length, word correspondence and cognate matching) take into account different aspects of similarity betwe...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We show that jointly parsing a bitext can substantially improve parse quality on both sides. In a maximum entropy bitext parsing model, we define a distribution over source trees,...