... proposes an approach to im-prove wordalignmentforlanguageswith scarce resources using bilingual corpora of other language pairs. To perform word alignment between languages L1 and L2, we introduce ... two parameters for the dis-tortion probability: one for head words and the other for non-head words. Distortion Probability for Head Words The distortion probability for head words represents ... Class-based Approach to Word Alignment. Computational Lin-guistics, 23(2): 313-343. Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik. 2005. Improved HMM Alignment Models forLanguageswith Scarce Resources. In Proc....
... chính, tiền bạc Finance for education comes from taxpayers ã financial ã financially ã financier Formula: Cụng thc ã formulate / ã reformulate ã formulation / • reformulation Function: ... energetically Enforce: Ép buộc. (obey: tuân theo) The legislation will be difficult to enforce. It is the duty of the police to enforce the law. United Nations troops enforced a ceasefire ... database Integrate into /with something These programs will integrate with your existing software. Integrate A (into /with B)| integrate A and B These programs can be integrated with your existing...
... 29–32,Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPA Novel Word Segmentation Approach for Written LanguageswithWord Boundary MarkersHan-Cheol Cho, Do-Gil LeeĐ, Jung-Tae LeeĐ, ... module.1 Introduction Word segmentation (WS) has been a fundamen-tal research issue forlanguages that do not have word boundary markers (WBMs); on the con-trary, other languages that do have ... information of the user in-put, forlanguageswith WBMs. By utilizing theuser input, the proposed method effectively refinesthe output of the baseline WS model and improvesthe overall performance.The...
... framework for word alignment that incorporates synonymknowledge collected from monolinguallinguistic resources in a bilingual proba-bilistic model. Synonym information ishelpful forwordalignment ... monolingual resources in a bilin-gual wordalignment model. We formulate a syn-onym pair generative model with a topic variableand use this model as a regularization term with abilingual wordalignment ... the different words coupled with the same word in the synonym pairs as synonyms. For in-stance, the words ‘head’, ‘chief’ and ‘forefront’ inthe bilingual sentences are replaced with ‘chief’,since...
... many-to-one word alignments,where each source word is aligned with zero orone target words, and therefore each target word can be aligned with many source words. Eachsource word is labelled with ... algorithms for maximumentropy parameter estimation. In Proceedings of CoNLL,pages 49–55.J. Martin, R. Mihalcea, and T. Pedersen. 2005. Word align-ment forlanguageswithscarce resources. ... alignments, where each target word is aligned with zero or more source words.Many-to-many alignments are recoverable usingthe standard techniques for superimposing pre-dicted alignments in both translation...
... candidate. This information is de-rived before wordalignment model training and willact as soft constraints that need to be respected dur-ing training and alignments. For a given word pair,the ... are used to guide word alignment model training for each iteration. TheBLEU score and TER with this constraint are shownin the line “BiLSA-1” of Table 1.To exploit wordalignment statistics ... as 1.In building wordalignment models, a special“NULL” word is usually introduced to address tar-get words that align to no source words. Since thisphysically non-existing word is not in the...
... a family of word alignment. Definition 1. The ITG alignment family is a set of word alignments that has at least one BTG deriva-tion.ITG alignment family is only a subset of word alignments because ... am-biguity in wordalignment is the case where two ormore derivations d1, d2, dkof G have the sameunderlying wordalignment A. A grammar G is non-spurious if for any given word alignment, ... PA, USA. Association for Computational Lin-guistics.Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, and Dan Klein. 2009. Bet-ter word alignments with supervised itg models. InAssociation for Computational Linguistics,...
... in its word alignment. Secondly, the aforementioned phrase alignment (Marcu and Wong, 02) considers the n : m map-ping directly bilingually generated by some con-cepts without word alignment. ... two word alignmentsas an alignment point, 2) add new alignment pointsthat exist in the union with the constraint that anew alignment point connects at least one previ-ously unaligned word, ... areless than 20 percent.2 1 : n Word Alignment Our discussion of uni-directional alignments of word alignment is limited to IBM Model 4.Definition 1 (Word alignment task) Let eibethe i-th...
... bilin-gual wordalignment finds word- to -word connec-tions across languages. Originally introduced as abyproduct of training statistical translation modelsin (Brown et al., 1993), wordalignment ... this formalism:A → [AA] | AA | e/fThis grammar enforces its own weak cohesionconstraint: for every possible alignment, a corre-sponding binary constituency tree must exist for which the alignment ... new information resulting in im-proved alignments.2 Constrained Alignment Let an alignment be the complete structure thatconnects two parallel sentences, and a link beone of the word- to-word...
... clustering. Those wordsthat are considered for clustering should account for more than of the cooccur-rences of the source language wordwith any tar-get language word. If a word falls below ... the target language wordsthat cooccur with source language word .Similarly to the most frequent words, dictionaryscores forword pairs that are too rare for clusteringremain unchanged. 0.220.240.260.280.30.320.340.360.380.40 ... threshold . enforcesthat all words within one cluster must have an av-erage similarity score of at least . The sec-ond threshold, , enforces that only certainwords are considered for clustering....
... 0.720opened 0.2 0.860The matrix is simply filled with all values ofcombined clues for each word pair. For ex-ample, the total clue value for the word pairs ="baggage" and t ="handbagaget" ... findthe word- to -word relation with the highestvalue in the matrix to zero.2.Check for overlaps: If the link overlaps with other links from more than one accepted linkclustercontinue with ... bilinguallexical information. Wordalignment approachesfocus on the automatic identification of translationrelations in translated texts. Alignments are usu-ally represented as a set of links between wordsand...
... evaluation exer-cise forword alignment. In Proc. of the Workshop onBuilding and Using Parallel Texts.R. C. Moore. 2005. A discriminative framework for bilingual word alignment. In Proc. of ... Czech-English poses problems for wordalignment models since, unlike English,Czech words have a complex inflectional morphol-ogy, and the syntax permits relatively free word or-der. For this language ... theirperformance in a translation system.Since we only have gold alignments for Czech-English (Bojar and Prokopov´a, 2006), we can re-port alignment error rate (AER; Och and Ney, 2003)only for...
... based on word alignment. In this paper we introduce a confidence mea-sure forword alignment, which is robust to extraor missing words in the bilingual sentence pairs,as well as wordalignment ... the same word does in-crease the confusion forwordalignment and re-duce the link confidence. On the other hand, ad-ditional information (such as the distance of the word pair, the alignment ... confidence sentencealignments and alignment links from mul-tiple word alignments of the same sen-tence pair. Additionally, we removelow confidence alignment links from the word alignment of a bilingual...
... Translation results (BLEU score) with phrase tables trained with different word align-ment combination methods4 ConclusionsWe presented a simple yet effective method for word alignment symmetrization ... syntax-based translation framework.Most wordalignment models distinguish trans-lation direction in deriving wordalignment matrix.Given a parallel sentence, word alignments in twodirections are ... Statistics of wordalignment set and theresulting phrase table size (number of entries inthousand (K)) with different combination methods3.2 Translation ResultsThe ultimate goal of word alignment...
... and document-pair. Formally, we dene the following terms1:ã A word- pair (fj, ei) is the basic unit for word alignment, where fjis a French word and eiis an English word; j and i are ... corpus-level word- correlation and contextual-level topicalinformation may help to disambiguate translationcandidates and word- alignment choices. For ex-ample, the most frequent source words (e.g., ... improve alignment. 3.3 BiTAM-3: Word- level AdmixtureIt is straightforward to extend the sentence-levelBiTAM-1 to a word- level admixture model, bysampling topic indicator zn,j for each word- pair(fj,...