ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W05-0836
Paper Title:
TRAINING AND EVALUATING ERROR MINIMIZATION DECISION RULES FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
TRAINING AND EVALUATING ERROR MINIMIZATION DECISION RULES FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Authors: Ashish Venugopal and Andreas Zollmann and Alex Waibel
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- aggressive pruning
- algorithm
- approximation
- automatic evaluation
- automatic translation
- automatic translation evaluation
- beam pruning
- beam search
- cost estimation
- decoder
- decoding
- direct translation
- error minimization
- estimator
- greedy search
- learning
- likelihood estimate
- list training
- loss function
- machine translation
- matching
- maximum likelihood
- mbr decoding
- measuring
- mer training
- modeling
- n-best list training
- optimization
- optimization algorithm
- optimization procedure
- parameter search
- phrase translation
- phrase-based translation
- preprocessing
- pruning
- ranking
- rescoring
- sampling
- score sampling
- scoring
- search
- search method
- searching
- segmentation
- smoothing
- splitting
- statistical machine translation
- statistical translation
- training algorithm
- training method
- training procedure
- training process
- translation evaluation
- translation process
- translation system
Other assigned terms:
- alignment information
- approach
- beam
- bias
- bleu
- bleu metric
- bleu score
- brevity penalty
- candidate translation
- conditional distribution
- correlation
- data set
- data sets
- decision rule
- density function
- development set
- distribution
- english candidate translation
- english language
- english language model
- english translations
- error rate
- estimation
- europarl corpus
- evaluation metric
- evaluation metrics
- exponential model
- fact
- feature
- french
- generation
- generative model
- grid
- histogram
- hypotheses
- implementation
- language model
- language pairs
- lattice
- likelihood
- log-linear model
- maximum likelihood estimate
- measure
- method
- model parameter
- model parameters
- n-best list
- n-gram
- n-grams
- non-probabilistic evaluation
- optimization problem
- parallel texts
- parameter settings
- parameter space
- phrase
- precision
- probabilities
- probability
- probability density
- probability density function
- probability distribution
- procedure
- process
- reordering
- representations
- running time
- search procedure
- search space
- sentence
- sentences
- source sentence
- target sentence
- target word
- technique
- term
- terms
- test data
- test set
- training
- training criterion
- translation model
- translation models
- translation output
- translation pair
- translation quality
- translation table
- translation task
- translations
- word
- word sequence
- words
