We present an overview of Candide, a system for automatic translation of French text to English text. Candide uses methods of information theory and statistics to develop a probab...
Adam L. Berger, Peter F. Brown, Stephen Della Piet...
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&...
In one form or another language translation is a necessary part of cross-lingual information retrieval systems. Often times this is accomplished using machine translation systems....
State-of-the-art machine translation techniques are still far from producing high quality translations. This drawback leads us to introduce an alternative approach to the translat...
Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Antonio L. Lagarda, Davi...
This paper describes the application of discriminative reranking techniques to the problem of machine translation. For each sentence in the source language, we obtain from a basel...