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EMNLP
2008
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2008
Traditionally, statistical machine translation systems have relied on parallel bi-lingual data to train a translation model. While bi-lingual parallel data are expensive to genera...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Translation rule extraction is a fundamental problem in machine translation, especially for linguistically syntax-based systems that need parse trees from either or both sides of ...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and time-consuming. We explore the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk syst...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
The accuracy of current word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems is affected by the fine-grained sense inventory of WordNet as well as a lack of training examples. Using the WSD ex...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
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...