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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Acoustic Model Discovery
We investigate the problem of acoustic modeling in which prior language-specific knowledge and transcribed data are unavailable. We present an unsupervised model that simultaneou...
Chia-ying Lee, James R. Glass
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Estimating Compact Yet Rich Tree Insertion Grammars
We present a Bayesian nonparametric model for estimating tree insertion grammars (TIG), building upon recent work in Bayesian inference of tree substitution grammars (TSG) via Dir...
Elif Yamangil, Stuart M. Shieber
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Iterative Viterbi A* Algorithm for K-Best Sequential Decoding
Zhiheng Huang, Yi Chang, Bo Long, Jean-Francois Cr...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Concept-to-text Generation via Discriminative Reranking
This paper proposes a data-driven method for concept-to-text generation, the task of automatically producing textual output from non-linguistic input. A key insight in our approac...
Ioannis Konstas, Mirella Lapata