ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of C04-1006
Paper Title:
IMPROVED WORD ALIGNMENT USING A SYMMETRIC LEXICON MODEL
IMPROVED WORD ALIGNMENT USING A SYMMETRIC LEXICON MODEL
Authors: Richard Zens and Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- approximation
- bilingual bracketing
- bracketing
- decomposition
- em algorithm
- ibm translation
- language modeling
- language processing
- lexicon smoothing
- lexicon symmetrization
- linear interpolation
- linking
- loglinear
- loglinear interpolation
- loglinear lexicon symmetrization
- machine translation
- modeling
- natural language processing
- normalization
- processing
- reestimation
- resampling
- smoothing
- smoothing method
- speech translation
- statistical alignment
- statistical machine translation
- statistical methods
- statistical translation
- statistical word alignment
- symmetrization
- training procedure
- viterbi
- viterbi alignment
- word alignment
- word translation
Other assigned terms:
- alignment error rate
- alignment model
- alignment models
- ambiguity
- annotation
- annotation scheme
- appointment scheduling
- approach
- backing-off distribution
- bilingual corpora
- bilingual training corpus
- case
- coefficient
- conditional probabilities
- corpora
- corpus size
- data sparseness
- data sparseness problem
- dependency trees
- derivation
- dice
- dice coefficient
- distribution
- error rate
- f-measure
- french
- function words
- german-english verbmobil task
- heuristic
- ibm models
- idiomatic expressions
- interpolation
- joint probability
- knowledge
- language model
- lexica
- lexicon
- lexicon entries
- lexicon model
- linguistic
- linguistic knowledge
- mapping
- meanings
- measure
- measures
- method
- model parameters
- natural language
- parse
- phrase
- precision
- probabilities
- probability
- probability distribution
- procedure
- punctuation
- punctuation marks
- relation
- sentence
- sentence pair
- sentences
- source language
- source language sentence
- source sentence
- sparseness problem
- speech translation task
- statistical alignment models
- statistical approach
- statistical models
- statistical significance
- statistics
- stem
- target language
- target language model
- target language sentence
- target sentence
- target word
- term
- test corpus
- training
- training corpus
- translation direction
- translation model
- translation models
- translation probabilities
- translation task
- translations
- trees
- unigram
- word
- word alignments
- word pair
- words
