ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of N04-1022
Paper Title:
MINIMUM BAYES-RISK DECODING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
MINIMUM BAYES-RISK DECODING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Authors: Shankar Kumar and William Byrne
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- automatic mt
- automatic mt evaluation
- automatic speech recognition
- automatic translation
- automatic translation evaluation
- bilingual tree loss function
- bitext word alignment
- bootstrap
- bootstrap resampling
- chinese parser
- chinese-to-english translation
- collins parser
- computing
- consensus translation
- decoder
- decoding
- decoding procedure
- distance function
- english parser
- hypothesis translation
- lattice search
- levenshtein
- loss function
- machine translation
- machine translation evaluation
- machine translation systems
- maximum likelihood
- mbr decoding
- measuring
- model rescoring
- modeling
- mt system
- mt systems
- nlp
- parser
- parsing
- recognition
- resampling
- rescoring
- search
- speech recognition
- statistical machine translation
- statistical mt
- statistical translation
- training procedure
- translation evaluation
- translation systems
- translator
- translators
- tree-to-tree alignment
- tuning
- word alignment
- word-to-word alignment
Other assigned terms:
- approach
- bitext
- bleu
- bleu metric
- bleu score
- bleu scores
- brevity penalty
- case
- chinese sentence
- chinese treebank
- chinese words
- compact representation
- correlation
- decision rule
- distance measure
- distribution
- english translations
- error metric
- error rate
- evaluation metric
- evaluation metrics
- geometric mean
- hypotheses
- hypothesis
- joint probability
- knowledge
- language model
- lattice
- lattices
- leaf
- likelihood
- linguistic
- linguistic features
- linguistic information
- mapping
- measure
- measures
- mt evaluation
- multi-reference word
- n-gram
- ngram
- nist
- noun phrase
- opinions
- parallel corpus
- parse
- parse tree
- parse-tree
- penn chinese treebank
- penn treebank
- permutation
- phrase
- pinyin
- posterior
- posterior probability
- precision
- probability
- procedure
- reference translation
- reference translations
- reordering
- search space
- sentence
- sentence pair
- sentences
- source language
- source sentence
- statistical approach
- statistical models
- subtree
- subtrees
- syntactic features
- syntactic information
- syntactic knowledge
- syntactic structure
- syntax
- target language
- target sentence
- target word
- terms
- test set
- training
- translation model
- translation models
- translation quality
- translation task
- translations
- tree
- treebank
- trees
- user
- user model
- word
- word alignments
- word error rate
- word level
- word sequence
- word string
- word strings
- words
