A statistical approach to machine translation
Computational Linguistics
Semiring frameworks and algorithms for shortest-distance problems
Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
Minimum bayes-risk automatic speech recognition
Minimum bayes-risk automatic speech recognition
Finite-state transducers in language and speech processing
Computational Linguistics
Regular expressions for language engineering
Natural Language Engineering
Parsing algorithms and metrics
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
The Alignment Template Approach to Statistical Machine Translation
Computational Linguistics
Minimum Bayes-Risk word alignments of bilingual texts
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
Generation of word graphs in statistical machine translation
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
Symmetric word alignments for statistical machine translation
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
High quality word graphs using forward-backward pruning
ICASSP '99 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. on 1999 IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
Minimum risk annealing for training log-linear models
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Minimum Bayes Risk decoding for BLEU
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
Loss minimization in parse reranking
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Forest-based translation rule extraction
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Lattice-based minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Comparing reordering constraints for SMT using efficient Bleu oracle computation
SSST '07 Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
Meteor: an automatic metric for MT evaluation with high levels of correlation with human judgments
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Syntax augmented machine translation via chart parsing
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Decomposability of translation metrics for improved evaluation and efficient algorithms
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Lattice-based minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Preference grammars: softening syntactic constraints to improve statistical machine translation
NAACL '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite state transducers
NAACL '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Fast consensus decoding over translation forests
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Collaborative decoding: partial hypothesis re-ranking using translation consensus between decoders
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Variational decoding for statistical machine translation
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Consensus training for consensus decoding in machine translation
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 3 - Volume 3
Expected sequence similarity maximization
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Model combination for machine translation
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Training phrase translation models with leaving-one-out
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACLShort '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers
Fast consensus hypothesis regeneration for machine translation
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
The CUED HiFST system for the WMT10 translation shared task
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
BBN system description for WMT10 system combination task
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
A unified approach to minimum risk training and decoding
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
Hierarchical phrase-based translation grammars extracted from alignment posterior probabilities
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Fluency constraints for minimum Bayes-risk decoding of statistical machine translation lattices
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Local lexical adaptation in machine translation through triangulation: SMT helping SMT
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Mixture model-based minimum Bayes risk decoding using multiple machine translation systems
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Overview and results of Morpho challenge 2009
CLEF'09 Proceedings of the 10th cross-language evaluation forum conference on Multilingual information access evaluation: text retrieval experiments
Machine translation with lattices and forests
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite-state transducers and shallow-n grammars
Computational Linguistics
Hypothesis mixture decoding for statistical machine translation
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Minimum Bayes-risk system combination
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
The UPV-PRHLT combination system for WMT 2011
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Quasi-synchronous phrase dependency grammars for machine translation
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Minimum imputed risk: unsupervised discriminative training for machine translation
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Minimum bayes risk decoding with enlarged hypothesis space in system combination
CICLing'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part II
Hope and fear for discriminative training of statistical translation models
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Computing lattice BLEU oracle scores for machine translation
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Maximum expected BLEU training of phrase and lexicon translation models
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Learning translation consensus with structured label propagation
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems
Artificial Intelligence
Automatically assessing machine summary content without a gold standard
Computational Linguistics
Lattice BLEU oracles in machine translation
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
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We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses. We describe conditions on the loss function that will enable efficient implementation of MBR decoders on lattices. We introduce an approximation to the BLEU score (Papineni et al., 2001) that satisfies these conditions. The MBR decoding under this approximate BLEU is realized using Weighted Finite State Automata. Our experiments show that the Lattice MBR decoder yields moderate, consistent gains in translation performance over N-best MBR decoding on Arabic-to-English, Chinese-to-English and English-to-Chinese translation tasks. We conduct a range of experiments to understand why Lattice MBR improves upon N-best MBR and study the impact of various parameters on MBR performance.