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EMNLP
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Word Alignment with Bridge Languages
We describe an approach to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance using multi-lingual, parallel, sentence-aligned corpora in several bridge languages. Our appro...
Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfgang Macherey
EMNLP
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A Sequence Alignment Model Based on the Averaged Perceptron
We describe a discriminatively trained sequence alignment model based on the averaged perceptron. In common with other approaches to sequence modeling using perceptrons, and in co...
Dayne Freitag, Shahram Khadivi
EMNLP
2007
13 years 10 months ago
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
EMNLP
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Smooth Bilingual N-Gram Translation
We address the problem of smoothing translation probabilities in a bilingual N-grambased statistical machine translation system. It is proposed to project the bilingual tuples ont...
Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Jos&e...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Improved Sentence Alignment on Parallel Web Pages Using a Stochastic Tree Alignment Model
Parallel web pages are important source of training data for statistical machine translation. In this paper, we present a new approach to sentence alignment on parallel web pages....
Lei Shi, Ming Zhou