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ACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Fine-Grained Tree-to-String Translation Rule Extraction
Tree-to-string translation rules are widely used in linguistically syntax-based statistical machine translation systems. In this paper, we propose to use deep syntactic informatio...
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2009
13 years 6 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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...
AMTA
2000
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Oxygen: A Language Independent Linearization Engine
This paper describes a language independent linearization engine, oxyGen. This system compiles target language grammars into programs that take feature graphs as inputs and genera...
Nizar Habash
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