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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Clickthrough-based translation models for web search: from word models to phrase models
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jian-Yun Nie
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Unsupervised Discriminative Language Model Training for Machine Translation using Simulated Confusion Sets
An unsupervised discriminative training procedure is proposed for estimating a language model (LM) for machine translation (MT). An English-to-English synchronous context-free gra...
Zhifei Li, Ziyuan Wang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jason E...
TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
HMM Word and Phrase Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
HMM-based models are developed for the alignment of words and phrases in bitext. The models are formulated so that alignment and parameter estimation can be performed efficiently....
Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering mod...
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, K...