This paper presents a comparative study of target dependency structures yielded by several state-of-the-art linguistic parsers. Our approach is to measure the impact of these noni...
Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Ts...
: The performance of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system heavily depends on the quantity and quality of the bilingual language resource. However, the pervious work mainl...
We describe Akamon, an open source toolkit for tree and forest-based statistical machine translation (Liu et al., 2006; Mi et al., 2008; Mi and Huang, 2008). Akamon implements all...
We describe an open-source toolkit for statistical machine translation whose novel contributions are (a) support for linguistically motivated factors, (b) confusion network decodi...
Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris ...
In this paper, we argue that n-gram language models are not sufficient to address word reordering required for Machine Translation. We propose a new distortion model that can be u...