ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W06-3110
Paper Title:
N-GRAM POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
N-GRAM POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Authors: Richard Zens and Hermann Ney
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- automatic speech recognition
- blind evaluation
- computer assisted translation
- confidence estimation
- downhill simplex algorithm
- graph rescoring
- iterative search
- kneser-ney smoothing
- language model training
- language modeling
- linear interpolation
- machine translation
- machine translation system
- model training
- modeling
- normalization
- phrase translation
- phrase-based translation
- phrase-based translation system
- recognition
- rescoring
- search
- search process
- simplex algorithm
- smoothing
- speech recognition
- speech translation
- statistical machine translation
- translation system
- translation systems
- translators
Other assigned terms:
- approach
- arithmetic mean
- baseline model
- bilingual training corpus
- bleu
- bleu score
- brevity penalty
- case
- corpora
- decision rule
- development set
- distribution
- estimation
- evaluation set
- experimental results
- feature
- geometric mean
- hypotheses
- interpolation
- knowledge
- language model
- lexicon
- lexicon model
- log-linear combination
- measure
- measures
- n-best list
- n-gram
- n-gram language model
- n-grams
- nist
- normalization factor
- phrase
- phrase translation model
- poisson distribution
- posterior
- posterior probability
- precision
- probabilities
- probability
- process
- reference translations
- search space
- sentence
- sentence length model
- sentences
- source language
- source language sentence
- source sentence
- statistics
- target language
- target language sentence
- target sentence
- technology
- term
- toolkit
- training
- training corpus
- training data
- translation candidates
- translation model
- translation quality
- translations
- word
- words
