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2012
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Fast and Scalable Decoding with Language Model Look-Ahead for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
In this work we present two extensions to the well-known dynamic programming beam search in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), aiming at increased efficiency of ...
Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney, Richard Zens
ACL
2012
12 years 6 days ago
Discriminative Pronunciation Modeling: A Large-Margin, Feature-Rich Approach
We address the problem of learning the mapping between words and their possible pronunciations in terms of sub-word units. Most previous approaches have involved generative modeli...
Hao Tang, Joseph Keshet, Karen Livescu
ACL
2012
12 years 6 days ago
Selective Sharing for Multilingual Dependency Parsing
We present a novel algorithm for multilingual dependency parsing that uses annotations from a diverse set of source languages to parse a new unannotated language. Our motivation i...
Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay, Amir Globerson
ACL
2012
12 years 6 days ago
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Acoustic Model Discovery
We investigate the problem of acoustic modeling in which prior language-specific knowledge and transcribed data are unavailable. We present an unsupervised model that simultaneou...
Chia-ying Lee, James R. Glass
ACL
2012
12 years 6 days ago
Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction
This paper uses an unsupervised model of grounded language acquisition to study the role that social cues play in language acquisition. The input to the model consists of (orthogr...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael C. Frank