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NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
TIPS: A Translingual Information Processing System
Searching online information is increasingly a daily activity for many people. The multilinguality of online content is also increasing (e.g. the proportion of English web users, ...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany...
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation
We describe a methodology for rapid experimentation in statistical machine translation which we use to add a large number of features to a baseline system exploiting features from...
Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur,...
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Chunk-Based Statistical Translation
This paper describes an alternative translation model based on a text chunk under the framework of statistical machine translation. The translation model suggested here first per...
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroshi G. Okuno
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment
Word alignment plays a crucial role in statistical machine translation. Word-aligned corpora have been found to be an excellent source of translation-related knowledge. We present...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Machine Reordering
Reordering is currently one of the most important problems in statistical machine translation systems. This paper presents a novel strategy for dealing with it: statistical machin...
Marta R. Costa-Jussà, José A. R. Fon...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation
We investigate the impact of parse quality on a syntactically-informed statistical machine translation system applied to technical text. We vary parse quality by varying the amoun...
Chris Quirk, Simon Corston-Oliver
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation
Statistical machine translation is quite robust when it comes to the choice of input representation. It only requires consistency between training and testing. As a result, there ...
Fatiha Sadat, Nizar Habash
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment
We introduce a semi-supervised approach to training for statistical machine translation that alternates the traditional Expectation Maximization step that is applied on a large tr...
Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu