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COLING
2010
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Improved Discriminative ITG Alignment using Hierarchical Phrase Pairs and Semi-supervised Training
While ITG has many desirable properties for word alignment, it still suffers from the limitation of one-to-one matching. While existing approaches relax this limitation using phra...
Shujie Liu, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou
TASLP
2008
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Syntactically Lexicalized Phrase-Based SMT
Abstract--Until quite recently, extending Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) with syntactic knowledge caused system performance to deteriorate. The most recent su...
Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way
EMNLP
2008
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Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective
The conditional phrase translation probabilities constitute the principal components of phrase-based machine translation systems. These probabilities are estimated using a heurist...
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an
EMNLP
2007
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What Can Syntax-Based MT Learn from Phrase-Based MT?
We compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of a syntax-based machine translation model with a phrase-based machine translation model on several levels. We briefly descr...
Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang 0006, Daniel...