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ACL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
This paper proposes a novel method for phrase-based statistical machine translation by using pivot language. To conduct translation between languages Lf and Le with a small biling...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer...
EMNLP
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical System Combination for Machine Translation
Given multiple translations of the same source sentence, how to combine them to produce a translation that is better than any single system output? We propose a hierarchical syste...
Fei Huang, Kishore Papineni
ACL
2011
14 years 1 months ago
Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
We propose a principled and efficient phraseto-phrase alignment model, useful in machine translation as well as other related natural language processing problems. In a hidden se...
Mohit Bansal, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie