ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of J90-2002
Paper Title:
A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION
A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION
Authors: Peter F. Brown and John Cocke and Stephen A. Della Pietra and Vincent J. Della Pietra and Fredrick Jelinek and John D. Lafferty and Robert L. Mercer and Paul S. Roossin
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- automatic speech recognition
- computational linguistics
- computing
- database
- decoder
- decoding
- em algorithm
- estimation process
- iterative algorithm
- language modeling
- language processing
- machine translation
- machine translation system
- modeling
- natural language processing
- parameter estimation
- processing
- recognition
- recognition system
- repair
- search
- searching
- speech recognition
- speech recognition system
- statistical machine translation
- statistical machine translation system
- statistical methods
- statistical translation
- suboptimal search
- translation process
- translation system
- translator
- translators
Other assigned terms:
- approach
- bigram
- bigram language model
- bigram model
- case
- conditional probability
- corpora
- dictionary
- distortion probability
- distribution
- english sentence
- english text
- english vocabulary
- estimation
- fact
- feature
- french
- french sentence
- french text
- french translation
- french word
- hansard corpus
- hypotheses
- hypothesis
- information theory
- joint probability
- language model
- language model probability
- lexicography
- linguistics
- local maxima
- local maximum
- machine-readable corpora
- meaning
- measure
- method
- model probability
- modeling problem
- n-gram
- n-gram model
- n-gram models
- natural language
- nouns
- passage
- phrase
- possible translation
- probabilities
- probability
- probability distribution
- procedure
- process
- random sample
- search procedure
- sentence
- sentence pair
- sentences
- source language
- source sentence
- statistical approach
- statistics
- target language
- target sentence
- target word
- text
- theorem
- theory
- translation model
- translation models
- translation probabilities
- translation probability
- translations
- trigram
- trigram language model
- trigram model
- utterance
- vocabulary
- word
- word string
- words
