We present an overview of Candide, a system for automatic translation of French text to English text. Candide uses methods of information theory and statistics to develop a probab...
Adam L. Berger, Peter F. Brown, Stephen Della Piet...
This paper describes an approach for computing a consensus translation from the outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. The consensus translation is computed by weigh...
Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Rafael E. Banchs, N...
Short Messaging Service (SMS) texts behave quite differently from normal written texts and have some very special phenomena. To translate SMS texts, traditional approaches model s...
We present the results of an experiment on extending the automatic method of Machine Translation evaluation BLUE with statistical weights for lexical items, such as tf.idf scores....
We examine pooling data as a method for improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) quality for narrowly defined domains, such as data for a particular company or public entit...