We present a discriminative model that directly predicts which set of phrasal translation rules should be extracted from a sentence pair. Our model scores extraction sets: nested ...
Many object classes, including human faces, can be modeled as a set of characteristic parts arranged in a variable spatial con guration. We introduce a simpli ed model of a deforma...
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...
This work presents improvements of a large-scale Arabic to French statistical machine translation system over a period of three years. The development includes better preprocessin...
Performance of n-gram language models depends to a large extent on the amount of training text material available for building the models and the degree to which this text matches...