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ACL
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
This paper proposes a novel method for phrase-based statistical machine translation by using pivot language. To conduct translation between languages Lf and Le with a small biling...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
EMNLP
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Hierarchical System Combination for Machine Translation
Given multiple translations of the same source sentence, how to combine them to produce a translation that is better than any single system output? We propose a hierarchical syste...
Fei Huang, Kishore Papineni
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
We propose a principled and efficient phraseto-phrase alignment model, useful in machine translation as well as other related natural language processing problems. In a hidden se...
Mohit Bansal, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie