The hierarchical Pitman-Yor process-based smoothing method applied to language model was proposed by Goldwater and by Teh; the performance of this smoothing method is shown compara...
Abstract. German compound words pose special problems to statistical machine translation systems: the occurence of each of the components in the training data is not sufficient for...
This paper proposes a new approach for the automatic extraction of bilingual terms from a domain-specific bilingual parallel corpus. We combine existing monolingual term extractor...
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...
Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...