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ACL
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words togeth...
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
This paper presents a direct word reordering model with novel syntax-based features for statistical machine translation. Reordering models address the problem of reordering source...
Niyu Ge
ACL
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation
We describe a method for the fully automatic learning of hierarchical finite state translation models. The input to the method is transcribed speech utterances and their correspon...
Hiyan Alshawi, Srinivas Bangalore, Shona Douglas
IBPRIA
2003
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Combining Phrase-Based and Template-Based Alignment Models in Statistical Translation
In statistical machine translation, single-word based models have an important deficiency; they do not take contextual information into account for the translation decision. A poss...
Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta