Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
BLEU is the de facto standard for evaluation and development of statistical machine translation systems. We describe three real-world situations involving comparisons between diff...
David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, Hwee T...
We reveal a previously unnoticed connection between dependency parsing and statistical machine translation (SMT), by formulating the dependency parsing task as a problem of word a...
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
This work presents improvements of a large-scale Arabic to French statistical machine translation system over a period of three years. The development includes better preprocessin...