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ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
Automatic word alignment is a key step in training statistical machine translation systems. Despite much recent work on word alignment methods, alignment accuracy increases often ...
Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Ben Task...
NLE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Segmentation and alignment of parallel text for statistical machine translation
We address the problem of extracting bilingual chunk pairs from parallel text to create training sets for statistical machine translation. We formulate the problem in terms of a s...
Yonggang Deng, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
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...
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge
We present a general framework to incorporate prior knowledge such as heuristics or linguistic features in statistical generative word alignment models. Prior knowledge plays a ro...
Yonggang Deng, Yuqing Gao
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation systems usually extract rules from bilingual corpora annotated with 1-best alignments. They are prone to learn noisy rules due to alignment...
Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, Qun Liu