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EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable
It is possible to reduce the bulk of phrasetables for Statistical Machine Translation using a technique based on the significance testing of phrase pair co-occurrence in the para...
Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin, George F. Foster, ...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation
We discuss different strategies for smoothing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation settings. We show that any type of smoothing is a bet...
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We compare two pivot strategies for phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), namely phrase translation and sentence translation. The phrase translation strategy means t...
Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara
FLAIRS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Given Bilingual Terminology in Statistical Machine Translation: MWE-Sensitve Word Alignment and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process-
This paper considers a scenario when we are given almost perfect knowledge about bilingual terminology in terms of a test corpus in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). When the...
Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Current phrase-based SMT systems perform poorly when using small training sets. This is a consequence of unreliable translation estimates and low coverage over source and target p...
Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata