We present a framework where auxiliary MT systems are used to provide lexical predictions to a main SMT system. In this work, predictions are obtained by means of pivoting via aux...
Three state-of-the-art statistical parsers are combined to produce more accurate parses, as well as new bounds on achievable Treebank parsing accuracy. Two general approaches are ...
Language is sensitive to both semantic and pragmatic effects. To capture both effects, we model language use as a cooperative game between two players: a speaker, who generates an...
We describe a cross-lingual method for the induction of selectional preferences for resourcepoor languages, where no accurate monolingual models are available. The method uses bil...
A word in one language can be translated to zero, one, or several words in other languages. Using word fertility features has been shown to be useful in building word alignment mo...