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MLCW
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Lexical Alignment Model for Probabilistic Textual Entailment
This paper describes the Bar-Ilan system participating in the Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge. The paper proposes first a general probabilistic setting that formalizes th...
Oren Glickman, Ido Dagan, Moshe Koppel
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms
BLEU is the de facto standard for evaluation and development of statistical machine translation systems. We describe three real-world situations involving comparisons between diff...
David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, Hwee T...
MT
2002
297views more  MT 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
MARS: A Statistical Semantic Parsing and Generation-Based Multilingual Automatic tRanslation System
We present MARS (Multilingual Automatic tRanslation System), a research prototype speech-to-speech translation system. MARS is aimed at two-way conversational spoken language trans...
Yuqing Gao, Bowen Zhou, Zijian Diao, Jeffrey S. So...
ACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
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
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Expectation Maximization and Posterior Constraints
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used maximum likelihood estimation procedure for statistical models when the values of some of the variables in the model a...
João Graça, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Task...