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EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable
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, ...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation
We discuss different strategies for smoothing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation settings. We show that any type of smoothing is a bet...
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson
NAACL
2007
13 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We compare two pivot strategies for phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), namely phrase translation and sentence translation. The phrase translation strategy means t...
Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara
FLAIRS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Given Bilingual Terminology in Statistical Machine Translation: MWE-Sensitve Word Alignment and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process-
This paper considers a scenario when we are given almost perfect knowledge about bilingual terminology in terms of a test corpus in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). When the...
Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Current phrase-based SMT systems perform poorly when using small training sets. This is a consequence of unreliable translation estimates and low coverage over source and target p...
Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata