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ACL
2004
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Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings
We present the results of an experiment on extending the automatic method of Machine Translation evaluation BLUE with statistical weights for lexical items, such as tf.idf scores....
Bogdan Babych, Tony Hartley
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ACL
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment
Documents in languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean sometimes annotate terms with their translations in English inside a pair of parentheses. We present a method to extrac...
Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, Mari...
LREC
2008
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Creating Sentence-Aligned Parallel Text Corpora from a Large Archive of Potential Parallel Text using BITS and Champollion
Parallel text is one of the most valuable resources for development of statistical machine translation systems and other NLP applications. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has...
Kazuaki Maeda, Xiaoyi Ma, Stephanie Strassel
ACL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words togeth...
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way
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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Lattice Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses. We describe conditions on the loss function t...
Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfg...