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ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
A Word-to-Word Model of Translational Equivalence
Many multilingual NLP applications need to translate words between different languages, but cannot afford the computational expense of inducing or applying a full translation mode...
I. Dan Melamed
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm
Selecting the right word translation among several options in the lexicon is a core problem for machine translation. We present a novel approach to this problem that can be traine...
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence
This paper describes a study of the patterns of translational equivalence exhibited by a variety of bitexts. The study found that the complexity of these patterns in every bitext ...
Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Mela...
MT
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Finding translations for low-frequency words in comparable corpora
Abstract. The paper proposes a method to improve the extraction of lowfrequency translation equivalents from comparable corpora. Prior to performing the mapping between vector spac...
Viktor Pekar, Ruslan Mitkov, Dimitar Blagoev, Andr...