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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) and Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding are used in most current state-of-theart Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems. The algorithms wer...
Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer, Fran...
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Mining Translations of Web Queries from Web Click-through Data
Query translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has gained increasing attention in the research area. Previous work mainly used machine translation systems, bilin...
Rong Hu, Weizhu Chen, Jian Hu, Yansheng Lu, Zheng ...
AWIC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Multilingual QA System Based on the Web Data Redundancy
This paper explores the feasibility of a multilingual question answering approach based on the Web redundancy. The paper introduces a system prototype that combines a translation m...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Luis Villaseño...
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Curate a transliteration corpus from transliteration/translation pairs
Transliteration of new named entity is important for information retrieval that crosses two or multiple language. Rule-based machine transliteration is not satisfactory, since dif...
Shih-Hung Wu, Yu-Te Li
CIVR
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Using Maximum Entropy for Automatic Image Annotation
In this paper, we propose the use of the Maximum Entropy approach for the task of automatic image annotation. Given labeled training data, Maximum Entropy is a statistical techniqu...
Jiwoon Jeon, R. Manmatha