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EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Grammars Extracted from Alignment Posterior Probabilities
We report on investigations into hierarchical phrase-based translation grammars based on rules extracted from posterior distributions over alignments of the parallel text. Rather ...
Adrià de Gispert, Juan Pino, William J. Byr...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation
We present a method for improving word alignment for statistical syntax-based machine translation that employs a syntactically informed alignment model closer to the translation m...
Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
Automatic word alignment is a key step in training statistical machine translation systems. Despite much recent work on word alignment methods, alignment accuracy increases often ...
Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Ben Task...