ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
In this paper, we demonstrate that accurate machine translation is possible without the concept of “words,” treating MT as a problem of transformation between character string...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Many machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics have been shown to correlate better with human judgment than BLEU. In principle, tuning on these metrics should yield better syste...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
For resource-limited language pairs, coverage of the test set by the parallel corpus is an important factor that affects translation quality in two respects: 1) out of vocabulary ...
TSD
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. We present a systematic comparison of preprocessing techniques for two language pairs: English-Czech and English-Hindi. The two target languages, although both belonging ...
MT
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Machine translation of human languages is a field almost as old as computers themselves. Recent approaches to this challenging problem aim at learning translation knowledge automat...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We show here the viability of a rapid deployment of a new language pair within the METIS architecture. Contrarily to other SMT or EBMT systems, the METIS architecture allows us to...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In this paper, we describe our work on building a parallel treebank for a less studied and typologically dissimilar language pair, namely Swedish and Turkish. The treebank is a ba...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The performance of machine translation systems varies greatly depending on the source and target languages involved. Determining the contribution of different characteristics of l...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Most cross language information retrieval research concentrates on language pairs for which direct, rich, and often multiple translation resources already exist. However, for most...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
In this paper, we present an empirical study that utilizes morph-syntactical information to improve translation quality. With three kinds of language pairs matched according to mor...