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ACL
2012
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Heuristic Cube Pruning in Linear Time
We propose a novel heuristic algorithm for Cube Pruning running in linear time in the beam size. Empirically, we show a gain in running time of a standard machine translation syst...
Andrea Gesmundo, Giorgio Satta, James Henderson
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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Joint Evaluation of Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing
We present novel metrics for parse evaluation in joint segmentation and parsing scenarios where the gold sequence of terminals is not known in advance. The protocol uses distance-...
Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, Evelina Andersson
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
A Topic Similarity Model for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Previous work using topic model for statistical machine translation (SMT) explore topic information at the word level. However, SMT has been advanced from word-based paradigm to p...
Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Qun Liu, Shoux...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Fast and Robust Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Dynamic Model Selection
This paper presents a novel way of improving POS tagging on heterogeneous data. First, two separate models are trained (generalized and domain-specific) from the same data set by...
Jinho D. Choi, Martha Palmer
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
NiuTrans: An Open Source Toolkit for Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation
We present a new open source toolkit for phrase-based and syntax-based machine translation. The toolkit supports several state-of-the-art models developed in statistical machine t...
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Hao Zhang, Qiang Li