We present a quasi-synchronous dependency grammar (Smith and Eisner, 2006) for machine translation in which the leaves of the tree are phrases rather than words as in previous wor...
Dual decomposition has been recently proposed as a way of combining complementary models, with a boost in predictive power. However, in cases where lightweight decompositions are ...
Linear models have enjoyed great success in structured prediction in NLP. While a lot of progress has been made on efficient training with several loss functions, the problem of ...
Recently there has been a growing interest of research in tabling in the logic programming community because of its usefulness in a variety of application domains including progra...
In the current European scenario, characterized by the coexistence of communities writing and speaking a great variety of languages, machine translation has become a technology of ...