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Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for BLEU
We present a Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoder for statistical machine translation. The approach aims to minimize the expected loss of translation errors with regard to the BLEU sc...
Nicola Ehling, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
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2007
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Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation
We present a novel method for predicting inflected word forms for generating morphologically rich languages in machine translation. We utilize a rich set of syntactic and morphol...
Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki
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2007
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Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names
Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily availa...
Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo, Minghui Do...
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2007
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A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home
In order to effectively access the rapidly increasing range of media content available in the home, new kinds of more natural interfaces are needed. In this paper, we explore the ...
Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Michelle L...
ACL
2007
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Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...