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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
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Recently, confusion network decoding has been applied in machine translation system combination. Due to errors in the hypothesis alignment, decoding may result in ungrammatical co...
Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyridon Matsoukas, Richard...
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Building a Golden Collection of Parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment
This paper reports an experience on producing manual word alignments over six different language pairs (all combinations between Portuguese, English, French and Spanish) (Grac
Joao Graça, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luís...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Word Segmentation and POS Tagging
In this paper, we present a hybrid method for word segmentation and POS tagging. The target languages are those in which word boundaries are ambiguous, such as Chinese and Japanes...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Handwritten Word Recognition Using Conditional Random Fields
The paper describes a lexicon driven approach for word recognition on handwritten documents using Conditional Random Fields(CRFs). CRFs are discriminative models and do not make a...
Shravya Shetty, Harish Srinivasan, Sargur N. Sriha...