ACL
2011
13 years 4 months ago
2011
In this paper, with a belief that a language model that embraces a larger context provides better prediction ability, we present two extensions to standard n-gram language models ...
AAI
2011
13 years 4 months ago
2011
We compare different strategies to apply statistical machine translation techniques in order to retrieve documents which are a plausible translation of a given source document. Fi...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
In this paper, several approaches for language portability of dialogue systems are investigated with a focus on the spoken language understanding (SLU) component. We show that the...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
We present an adaptation technique for statistical machine translation, which applies the well-known Bayesian learning paradigm for adapting the model parameters. Since state-of-t...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Hierarchical phrase-based models provide a powerful mechanism to capture non-local phrase reorderings for statistical machine translation (SMT). However, many phrase reorderings a...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In this paper we look at the problem of cleansing noisy text using a statistical machine translation model. Noisy text is produced in informal communications such as Short Message...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In this paper we investigate the challenges of applying statistical machine translation to meeting conversations, with a particular view towards analyzing the importance of modeli...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
We propose a novel language-independent approach for improving statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages by exploiting their similarity to resource-rich ones. Mo...
ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Tree-based statistical machine translation models have made significant progress in recent years, especially when replacing 1-best trees with packed forests. However, as the parsi...