One style of Multi-Engine Machine Translation architecture involves choosing the best of a set of outputs from different systems. Choosing the best translation from an arbitrary s...
This paper revisits the lattice-based thesaurus models which Margaret Masterman used for machine translation in the 1950’s and 60’s. Masterman’s notions are mapped onto moder...
In this paper, we present a systems approach for channel modeling of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. This can have implications in improving speech recognition compo...
Qun Feng Tan, Kartik Audhkhasi, Panayiotis G. Geor...
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
We present a novel paradigm for statistical machine translation (SMT), based on a joint modeling of word alignment and the topical aspects underlying bilingual document-pairs, via...