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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...