ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W99-0604
Paper Title:
IMPROVED ALIGNMENT MODELS FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
IMPROVED ALIGNMENT MODELS FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Authors: Franz Josef Och and Christoph Tillmann and Hermann Ney
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- approximation
- beam-search
- bilingual clustering
- clustering
- clustering method
- decoding
- dp search
- dynamic programming
- extraction algorithm
- hidden markov
- hidden markov models
- instantiation
- localization
- machine translation
- matching
- maximum approximation
- maximum likelihood
- maximum-likelihood
- morphological processing
- optimization
- parallel training
- preprocessing
- processing
- pruning
- recognition
- recognizer
- search
- search process
- segmentation
- speech recognition
- speech recognition and translation
- speech recognizer
- speech translation
- statistical machine translation
- statistical methods
- statistical translation
- transcription
- translation process
- translation search
- translation systems
- viterbi
- word clustering
Other assigned terms:
- alignment model
- alignment models
- alignment probability
- alignment template
- appointment scheduling
- approach
- bigram
- bilingual training corpus
- case
- community
- compounds
- concept
- decision rule
- dictionary
- english vocabulary
- error rate
- estimation
- evaluations
- experimental results
- fact
- generation
- generation process
- grid
- heuristic
- hypotheses
- hypothesis
- joint probability
- language model
- lattice
- leaf
- lexicon
- likelihood
- mapping
- markov models
- measure
- method
- model parameters
- monotonicity requirement
- monotonicity restriction
- names
- nouns
- optimization criterion
- parallel texts
- parallel training corpus
- permutation
- perplexity
- phrase
- phrase level
- precision
- probabilities
- probability
- procedure
- process
- proper names
- punctuation
- punctuation marks
- recursion
- relative frequency
- search problem
- search procedure
- search space
- segments
- sentence
- sentence pair
- sentences
- source language
- source language sentence
- source sentence
- speech input
- speech translation task
- statistical model
- symbol
- syntactic structures
- target language
- target language string
- target sentence
- target string
- target word
- technique
- technology
- term
- test corpus
- text
- training
- training corpus
- translation direction
- translation model
- translation models
- translation probability
- translation task
- translations
- trigram
- trigram language model
- verb
- verb group
- vocabulary
- word
- word alignments
- word classes
- word error rate
- word level
- word level alignment
- word order
- words
