ACL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
In this paper, with a belief that a language model that embraces a larger context provides better prediction ability, we present two extensions to standard n-gram language models ...
AAI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
We compare different strategies to apply statistical machine translation techniques in order to retrieve documents which are a plausible translation of a given source document. Fi...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
In this paper, several approaches for language portability of dialogue systems are investigated with a focus on the spoken language understanding (SLU) component. We show that the...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We present an adaptation technique for statistical machine translation, which applies the well-known Bayesian learning paradigm for adapting the model parameters. Since state-of-t...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Hierarchical phrase-based models provide a powerful mechanism to capture non-local phrase reorderings for statistical machine translation (SMT). However, many phrase reorderings a...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In this paper we look at the problem of cleansing noisy text using a statistical machine translation model. Noisy text is produced in informal communications such as Short Message...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In this paper we investigate the challenges of applying statistical machine translation to meeting conversations, with a particular view towards analyzing the importance of modeli...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We propose a novel language-independent approach for improving statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages by exploiting their similarity to resource-rich ones. Mo...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Tree-based statistical machine translation models have made significant progress in recent years, especially when replacing 1-best trees with packed forests. However, as the parsi...