ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of J93-2003
Paper Title:
THE MATHEMATICS OF STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION: PARAMETER ESTIMATION
THE MATHEMATICS OF STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION: PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Authors: Peter E Brown and Vincent J. Della Pietra and Stephen A. Della Pietra and Robert L. Mercer
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- approximation
- automatic system
- bilingual lexicography
- computational linguistics
- computing
- constrained optimization
- delta function
- em algorithm
- iterative procedure
- language processing
- language processing systems
- local alignment
- machine translation
- machine translation systems
- matching
- maximum likelihood
- modeling
- morphological processing
- morphology
- natural language processing
- natural language processing systems
- normalization
- optimization
- parameter estimation
- processing
- reestimation
- sampling
- statistical machine translation
- statistical methods
- tableau
- terminology
- training algorithm
- translation process
- translation systems
- viterbi
- viterbi alignment
- viterbi training
Other assigned terms:
- adjective
- adverb
- affix
- analogy
- approach
- array
- association for computational linguistics
- bilingual corpus
- case
- characters
- composition
- concept
- concepts
- conditional probabilities
- conditional probability
- corpora
- correlation
- correlations
- device
- distribution
- english grammar
- english sentence
- english text
- english vocabulary
- estimation
- events
- fact
- frame
- french
- french sentence
- french text
- french translation
- french word
- grammar
- intention
- joint probability
- joint probability distribution
- knowledge
- large corpora
- lexicography
- likelihood
- likelihood function
- linguistic
- linguistic input
- linguistics
- local maximum
- mathematics
- method
- morphological structure
- mutual information
- natural language
- notational brevity
- nouns
- orthography
- parallel corpora
- parallel texts
- passage
- past participle
- permutation
- perplexity
- phrase
- prepositional phrase
- priori
- probabilistic framework
- probabilities
- probability
- probability distribution
- probability distributions
- procedure
- process
- propositions
- punctuation
- right-hand side
- sentence
- sentence boundaries
- sentences
- statistical approach
- statistical model
- statistics
- stress
- tableaux
- tense form
- term
- terms
- text
- training
- training data
- translation models
- translation probabilities
- translation probability
- translations
- typographical errors
- verb
- vocabulary
- word
- words
