We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses. We describe conditions on the loss function t...
Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfg...
In this paper we describe recent improvements to components and methods used in our statistical machine translation system for ChineseEnglish used in the January 2008 GALE evaluat...
Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noam...
This paper presents a novel approach to language modeling for voice search based on the idea and method of statistical machine translation. We propose an n-gram based translation ...
It is possible to reduce the bulk of phrasetables for Statistical Machine Translation using a technique based on the significance testing of phrase pair co-occurrence in the para...
Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin, George F. Foster, ...
Current methods of using lexical features in machine translation have difficulty in scaling up to realistic MT tasks due to a prohibitively large number of parameters involved. In...