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ACL
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation
We present a set of algorithms that enable us to translate natural language sentences by exploiting both a translation memory and a statistical-based translation model. Our result...
Daniel Marcu
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Bidirectional Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
This paper describes the right-to-left decoding method, which translates an input string by generating in right-to-left direction. In addition, presented is the bidirectional deco...
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita
TSD
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Query-Relevant Documents Pairs for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
David Pinto, Alfons Juan, Paolo Rosso
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation
We discuss different strategies for smoothing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation settings. We show that any type of smoothing is a bet...
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson