We focus on the probleln of building large repositories of le.rical coJtceplual structure (LCS) representations for verbs in multiple languages. One of the main results of this wo...
We propose a novel objective function for discriminatively tuning log-linear machine translation models. Our objective explicitly optimizes the BLEU score of expected n-gram count...
Tree Adjoining Grammars have well-known advantages, but are typically considered too difficult for practical systems. We demonstrate that, when done right, adjoining improves tran...
We present an overview of Candide, a system for automatic translation of French text to English text. Candide uses methods of information theory and statistics to develop a probab...
Adam L. Berger, Peter F. Brown, Stephen Della Piet...
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) is an attractive formalism for linguistic description mainly because cff its extended domain of locality and its factoring recursion out ...