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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Diversify and Combine: Improving Word Alignment for Machine Translation on Low-Resource Languages
We present a novel method to improve word alignment quality and eventually the translation performance by producing and combining complementary word alignments for low-resource la...
Bing Xiang, Yonggang Deng, Bowen Zhou
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination
Recently confusion network decoding shows the best performance in combining outputs from multiple machine translation (MT) systems. However, overcoming different word orders prese...
Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Combining many alignments for speech to speech translation
Alignment combination (symmetrization) has been shown to be useful for improving Machine Translation (MT) models. Most existing alignment combination techniques are based on heuri...
Sameer Maskey, Steven J. Rennie, Bowen Zhou
ACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Recently, confusion network decoding has been applied in machine translation system combination. Due to errors in the hypothesis alignment, decoding may result in ungrammatical co...
Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyridon Matsoukas, Richard...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Word Alignment with Bridge Languages
We describe an approach to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance using multi-lingual, parallel, sentence-aligned corpora in several bridge languages. Our appro...
Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfgang Macherey