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NAACL
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...
TREC
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Document Translation for Cross-Language Text Retrieval at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...
Douglas W. Oard, Paul G. Hackett
EMNLP
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation
We apply statistical machine translation (SMT) tools to generate novel paraphrases of input sentences in the same language. The system is trained on large volumes of sentence pair...
Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan
CICLING
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-G&oac...