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ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation
In statistical language modeling, one technique to reduce the problematic effects of data sparsity is to partition the vocabulary into equivalence classes. In this paper we invest...
Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants
ACL
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation as a Traveling Salesman Problem
An efficient decoding algorithm is a crucial element of any statistical machine translation system. Some researchers have noted certain similarities between SMT decoding and the f...
Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Marc Dymetman, Nicola Cancedda
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Translation Model Generalization using Probability Averaging for Machine Translation
Previous methods on improving translation quality by employing multiple SMT models usually carry out as a secondpass decision procedure on hypotheses from multiple systems using e...
Nan Duan, Hong Sun, Ming Zhou
IAJIT
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Improving the accuracy of English-Arabic statistical sentence alignment
: Multilingual natural language processing systems are increasingly relying on parallel corpus to ameliorate their output. Parallel corpora constitute the basic block for training ...
Mohammad Salameh, Rached Zantout, Nashat Mansour