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ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models
This work investigates supervised word alignment methods that exploit inversion transduction grammar (ITG) constraints. We consider maximum margin and conditional likelihood objec...
Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero, Dan Klei...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 14 days ago
Paraphrase generation to improve text-to-speech synthesis
Text-to-speech synthesizer systems are of overall good quality, especially when adapted to a specific task. Given this task and an adapted voice corpus, the message quality is mai...
Ghislain Putois, Jonathan Chevelu, Cédric B...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
A Discriminative Latent Variable-Based "DE" Classifier for Chinese-English SMT
Syntactic reordering on the source-side is an effective way of handling word order differences. The (DE) construction is a flexible and ubiquitous syntactic structure in Chinese w...
Jinhua Du, Andy Way
NLPRS
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automatically Harvesting Katakana-English Term Pairs from Search Engine Query Logs
This paper describes a method of extracting katakana words and phrases, along with their English counterparts from non-aligned monolingual web search engine query logs. The method...
Eric Brill, Gary Kacmarcik, Chris Brockett
EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction
Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and...
Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom