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ACL
2008
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Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment
Documents in languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean sometimes annotate terms with their translations in English inside a pair of parentheses. We present a method to extrac...
Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, Mari...
LREC
2008
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Creating Sentence-Aligned Parallel Text Corpora from a Large Archive of Potential Parallel Text using BITS and Champollion
Parallel text is one of the most valuable resources for development of statistical machine translation systems and other NLP applications. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has...
Kazuaki Maeda, Xiaoyi Ma, Stephanie Strassel
ACL
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words togeth...
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way
EMNLP
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation
We apply statistical machine translation (SMT) tools to generate novel paraphrases of input sentences in the same language. The system is trained on large volumes of sentence pair...
Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan
ACL
1998
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Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation
We describe a method for the fully automatic learning of hierarchical finite state translation models. The input to the method is transcribed speech utterances and their correspon...
Hiyan Alshawi, Srinivas Bangalore, Shona Douglas