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Machine Translation

Reading List

History:

W J Hutchins. 1994. Machine Translation: History and General Principles

Evaluation:

Kishore Papineni,Salim Roukos, Todd Ward and Wei-Jing Zhu. 2001. Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. IBM Tech report.

Data:

Gale, William A.; Church, Kenneth W. 1993. A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora. Computational Linguistics 19 (1): 75-102.

Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu. 2005. Improving Machine Translation Performance by Exploiting Non-Parallel Corpora. Computational Linguistics, 31:477--504

Language Models:

Thorsten Brants; Ashok C. Popat; Peng Xu; Franz J. Och; Jeffrey Dean. 2007. Large Language Models in Machine Translation. EMNLP

David Talbot; Miles Osborne. Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL.

Syntax:

David Chiang. 2005. A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL.

Adam Lopez. 2008. Tera-Scale Translation Models via Pattern Matching. CoLing.

Franz Josef Och; Daniel Gildea; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Anoop Sarkar; Kenji Yamada; Alex Fraser; Shankar Kumar; Libin Shen; David Smith; Katherine Eng; Viren Jain; Zhen Jin; Dragomir Radev. A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation . NAACL 04.

Michel Galley; Mark Hopkins; Kevin Knight; Daniel Marcu What's in a translation rule? . NAACL 04.

Tuning:

Mark Hopkins and Jonathon May Tuning as Ranking . EMNLP 11.

Reordering:

Alexandra Birch, Phil Blunsom and Miles Osborne A Quantitative Analysis of Reordering Phenomena. WMT 09.

Domain adaptation:

Foster, G. and R. Kuhn (2007, June). Mixture-model adaptation for SMT. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 128-135. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Moore, R. C. and W. Lewis (2010, July). Intelligent selection of language model training data. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers, Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 220-224. Association for Computational Linguistics.