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...
When aligning texts in very different languages such as Korean and English, structural features beyond word or phrase give useful intbrmation. In this paper, we present a method f...
Recent advances in statistical machine translation have used approximate beam search for NP-complete inference within probabilistic translation models. We present an alternative ap...
Abhishek Arun, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Adam L...
This article defines a Framework for Machine Translation Evaluation (FEMTI) which relates the quality model used to evaluate a machine translation system to the purpose and context...
Eduard H. Hovy, Margaret King, Andrei Popescu-Beli...
This paper proposes a variation of synchronous grammar based on the formalism of context-free grammar by generalizing the first component of productions that models the source text...
Fai Wong, Dong-Cheng Hu, Yu-Hang Mao, Ming-Chui Do...