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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Learning Better Rule Extraction with Translation Span Alignment
This paper presents an unsupervised approach to learning translation span alignments from parallel data that improves syntactic rule extraction by deleting spurious word alignment...
Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao, Chunliang Zhang
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Enhancing Statistical Machine Translation with Character Alignment
The dominant practice of statistical machine translation (SMT) uses the same Chinese word segmentation specification in both alignment and translation rule induction steps in buil...
Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang,...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Word Alignment via Submodular Maximization over Matroids
We cast the word alignment problem as maximizing a submodular function under matroid constraints. Our framework is able to express complex interactions between alignment component...
Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes
ACL
2011
13 years 4 months ago
An Unsupervised Model for Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction
We present an unsupervised model for joint phrase alignment and extraction using nonparametric Bayesian methods and inversion transduction grammars (ITGs). The key contribution is...
Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Shi...
ACL
2011
13 years 4 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Improved Discriminative ITG Alignment using Hierarchical Phrase Pairs and Semi-supervised Training
While ITG has many desirable properties for word alignment, it still suffers from the limitation of one-to-one matching. While existing approaches relax this limitation using phra...
Shujie Liu, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Discriminative Induction of Sub-Tree Alignment using Limited Labeled Data
We employ Maximum Entropy model to conduct sub-tree alignment between bilingual phrasal structure trees. Various lexical and structural knowledge is explored to measure the syntac...
Jun Sun, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method
Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario ...
Zhan-yi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li
ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment
In this paper we present a confidence measure for word alignment based on the posterior probability of alignment links. We introduce sentence alignment confidence measure and alig...
Fei Huang