Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees

This paper compares different bilexical tree-based models for bilingual alignment. EM training for the new model benefits from the dynamic programming "hook trick". The model produces improved dependency structure for both languages.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea
• Keywords: ACL 2006, ACL 2007, Bilexical Tree-based Models, Bilingual Alignment, Hook Trick