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AMTA
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT
Abstract. An adaptable statistical or hybrid MT system relies heavily on the quality of word-level alignments of real-world data. Statistical alignment approaches provide a reasona...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Nizar Habash
EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 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
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation
Current system combination methods usually use confusion networks to find consensus translations among different systems. Requiring one-to-one mappings between the words in candid...
Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, Yajuan L&...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment
For many years, statistical machine translation relied on generative models to provide bilingual word alignments. In 2005, several independent efforts showed that discriminative m...
Robert C. Moore, Wen-tau Yih, Andreas Bode
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Alignments for MT: An Empirical Study
Word alignment plays a central role in statistical MT (SMT) since almost all SMT systems extract translation rules from word aligned parallel training data. While most SMT systems...
Jinxi Xu, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti