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ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Heuristic Cube Pruning in Linear Time
We propose a novel heuristic algorithm for Cube Pruning running in linear time in the beam size. Empirically, we show a gain in running time of a standard machine translation syst...
Andrea Gesmundo, Giorgio Satta, James Henderson
EMNLP
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
We propose a simple training regime that can improve the extrinsic performance of a parser, given only a corpus of sentences and a way to automatically evaluate the extrinsic qual...
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, F...
ACL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System
Machine Translation in India is relatively young. The earliest efforts date from the late 80s and early 90s. The success of every system is judged from its evaluation experimental...
Vishal Goyal, Gurpreet Singh Lehal
ACL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
A Large Scale Distributed Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Model for Machine Translation
This paper presents an attempt at building a large scale distributed composite language model that simultaneously accounts for local word lexical information, mid-range sentence s...
Ming Tan, Wenli Zhou, Lei Zheng, Shaojun Wang
COLING
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Pattern-Based Machine Translation
Pattern-based machine translation systems can be easily customized by adding new patterns. To gain full profits from this character, input of patterns should be both expressive an...
Koichi Takeda
COLING
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Bidirectional, Transfer-Driven Machine Translation System For Spoken Dialogues
This paper presents a brief overview of the bidirectional (Japanese and English) TransferDriven Machine Translation system, currently being developed at ATR. The aim of this devel...
Yasuhiro Sobashima, Osamu Furuse, Susumu Akamine, ...
COLING
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Coping With Ambiguity in a Large-Scale Machine Translation System
In an interlingual knowledge-based machine translation system, ambiguity arises when the source language analyzer produces more than one interlingua expression for a source senten...
Kathryn L. Baker, Alexander Franz, Pamela W. Jorda...
ANLP
1994
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Machine Translation of Sentences with Fixed Expressions
This paper presents a practical machine translation system based on sentence types for economic news stories. Conventional English-to-Japanese machine translation (MT) systems whi...
Naoto Katoh, Teruaki Aizawa
ANLP
1997
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13 years 5 months ago
Disambiguation of Proper Names in Text
Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the manyto-many mapping between names and their referents. We...
Nina Wacholder, Yael Ravin, Misook Choi