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ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Current phrase-based SMT systems perform poorly when using small training sets. This is a consequence of unreliable translation estimates and low coverage over source and target p...
Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Phrase Translation Probabilities with ITG Priors and Smoothing as Learning Objective
The conditional phrase translation probabilities constitute the principal components of phrase-based machine translation systems. These probabilities are estimated using a heurist...
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment
The quality of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system is heavily dependent upon the amount of parallel sentences used in training. In recent years, there have been several...
Jason R. Smith, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Phrasal Knowledge for English-Chinese Bilingual Information Retrieval
Extraction of phrasal knowledge, such as proper names, domain-specific keyphrases and lexical templates from a domain-specific text collection are significant for developing effec...
Ming-Jer Lee, Lee-Feng Chien