The distortion cost function used in Mosesstyle machine translation systems has two flaws. First, it does not estimate the future cost of known required moves, thus increasing sea...
Spence Green, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Mannin...
This work investigates supervised word alignment methods that exploit inversion transduction grammar (ITG) constraints. We consider maximum margin and conditional likelihood objec...
Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero, Dan Klei...
A multi-lingual speech corpus used for modeling language acquisition called CAREGIVER has been designed and recorded within the framework of the EU funded Acquisition of Communica...
Toomas Altosaar, Louis ten Bosch, Guillaume Aimett...
The problem of polysemy involves having terms, such as “truck”, that refer to multiple concepts in different contexts; and conversely, having the same concept referred to with...
In this paper we first propose a new statistical parsing model, which is a generative model of lexicalised context-free grammar. We then extend the model to include a probabilisti...