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BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Ancestral sequence alignment under optimal conditions
Background: Multiple genome alignment is an important problem in bioinformatics. An important subproblem used by many multiple alignment approaches is that of aligning two multipl...
Alexander K. Hudek, Daniel G. Brown 0001
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate
We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of end-to-end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to Engl...
Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Hal Daumé III
ACL
2012
11 years 10 months ago
An Exploration of Forest-to-String Translation: Does Translation Help or Hurt Parsing?
Syntax-based translation models that operate on the output of a source-language parser have been shown to perform better if allowed to choose from a set of possible parses. In thi...
Hui Zhang, David Chiang
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Transliteration Alignment
This paper studies transliteration alignment, its evaluation metrics and applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, alignment entropy, grounded on the information theory, t...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li, Bo Lin
ACL
2000
13 years 8 months ago
A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model
I describe two methods for incorporating information about the relative positions of bilingual word pairs into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence translation model. The better o...
George F. Foster