MT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Phrase-based decoding is conceptually simple and straightforward to implement, at the cost of drastically oversimplified reordering models. Syntactically aware models make it pos...
MT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper introduces deep syntactic structures to syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We use a Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) parser to obtain the de...
MT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Recent advances in statistical machine translation have used approximate beam search for NP-complete inference within probabilistic translation models. We present an alternative ap...
MT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Translating between dissimilar languages requires an account of the use of divergent word orders when expressing the same semantic content. Reordering poses a serious problem for s...
MT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT), BLEU is often used as the error function, despite the fact that it has been shown to have a lower correlation with human judgment than other...