A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
Models of translational equivalence among words
Computational Linguistics
The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Bitext maps and alignment via pattern recognition
Computational Linguistics
Machine translation of very close languages
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Multipath translation lexicon induction via bridge languages
NAACL '01 Proceedings of the second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies
Cognates can improve statistical translation models
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
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
Clause restructuring for statistical machine translation
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Paraphrasing with bilingual parallel corpora
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Improved statistical machine translation using paraphrases
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation
Machine Translation
Moses: open source toolkit for statistical machine translation
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
CCG supertags in factored statistical machine translation
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Improving Arabic-Chinese statistical machine translation using English as pivot language
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Compositional Machine Transliteration
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Everybody loves a rich cousin: an empirical study of transliteration through bridge languages
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A hybrid morpheme-word representation for machine translation of morphologically rich languages
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mining closed discriminative dyadic sequential patterns
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
Translating from morphologically complex languages: a paraphrase-based approach
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Character-based pivot translation for under-resourced languages and domains
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Perplexity minimization for translation model domain adaptation in statistical machine translation
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
Source language adaptation for resource-poor machine translation
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Cross-lingual language modeling with syntactic reordering for low-resource speech recognition
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Statistical machine translation enhancements through linguistic levels: A survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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We propose a novel language-independent approach for improving statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages by exploiting their similarity to resource-rich ones. More precisely, we improve the translation from a resource-poor source language X1 into a resource-rich language Y given a bi-text containing a limited number of parallel sentences for X1-Y and a larger bi-text for X2-Y for some resource-rich language X2 that is closely related to X1. The evaluation for Indonesian→English (using Malay) and Spanish→English (using Portuguese and pretending Spanish is resource-poor) shows an absolute gain of up to 1.35 and 3.37 Bleu points, respectively, which is an improvement over the rivaling approaches, while using much less additional data.