This work presents improvements of a large-scale Arabic to French statistical machine translation system over a period of three years. The development includes better preprocessin...
Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
Out of vocabulary (OOV) words are problematic for cross language information retrieval. One way to deal with OOV words when the two languages have different alphabets, is to trans...