We describe Akamon, an open source toolkit for tree and forest-based statistical machine translation (Liu et al., 2006; Mi et al., 2008; Mi and Huang, 2008). Akamon implements all...
Data sparseness is one of the factors that degrade statistical machine translation (SMT). Existing work has shown that using morphosyntactic information is an effective solution t...
In recent work, we proposed an alternative to parallel text as translation model (TM) training data: audio recordings of parallel speech (pSp), as it occurs in any communication s...
Abstract. For many applications such as machine translation and bilingual information retrieval, the bilingual corpora play an important role in training the system. Because they a...
Our first objective in participating in this domain-specific evaluation campaign is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the German, English and Russ...