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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Syntax Based Reordering with Automatically Derived Rules for Improved Statistical Machine Translation
Syntax based reordering has been shown to be an effective way of handling word order differences between source and target languages in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) syste...
Karthik Visweswariah, Jiri Navratil, Jeffrey S. So...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Evaluation of Translation Quality for Distant Language Pairs
Automatic evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) quality is essential to developing highquality MT systems. Various evaluation metrics have been proposed, and BLEU is now used as ...
Hideki Isozaki, Tsutomu Hirao, Kevin Duh, Katsuhit...
TSD
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using TectoMT as a Preprocessing Tool for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract. We present a systematic comparison of preprocessing techniques for two language pairs: English-Czech and English-Hindi. The two target languages, although both belonging ...
Daniel Zeman
MT
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Metrics for MT evaluation: evaluating reordering
Translating between dissimilar languages requires an account of the use of divergent word orders when expressing the same semantic content. Reordering poses a serious problem for s...
Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Phil Blunsom
CORR
1998
Springer
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14 years 3 days ago
How to define a context-free backbone for DGs: Implementing a DG in the LFG formalism
This paper presents a multidimensional Dependency Grammar (DG), which decouples the dependency tree from word order, such that surface ordering is not determined by traversing the...
Norbert Bröker
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
A Quantitative Model of Word Order and Movement in English, Dutch and German Complement Constructions
We present a quantitative model of word order and movement constraints that enables a simple and uniform treatment of a seemingly heterogeneous collection of linear order phenomena...
Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen
COLING
1992
14 years 1 months ago
The Proper Treatment Of Word Order In HPSG
: This paper describes a possibility of expressing ordering constraints among non-sister constituents in binary branching syntactic structures on a local basis, supported by viewin...
Karel Oliva
EACL
1989
ACL Anthology
14 years 1 months ago
A logical treatment of semi-free word order and bounded discontinuous constituency
In this paper we present a logical treatment of semifree word order and bounded discontinuous constituency. We extend standard feature value logics to treat word order in a single...
Mike Reape
COLING
1996
14 years 1 months ago
Arguments desperately seeking Interpretation: Parsing German Infinitives
In this paper we present a GB-parsing system for German and in particular the system's strategy for argument interpretation, which copes with the difficulty that word order i...
Christopher Laenzlinger, Martin S. Ulmann, Eric We...
COLING
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Word Order Acquisition from Corpora
In this paper we describe a method of acquiring word order fl'om corpora. Word order is defined as the order of modifiers, or the order of phrasal milts called 'bunsetsu...
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, Satoshi...