Deciphering foreign language

  • Authors:
  • Sujith Ravi;Kevin Knight

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California

  • Venue:
  • HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work, we tackle the task of machine translation (MT) without parallel training data. We frame the MT problem as a decipherment task, treating the foreign text as a cipher for English and present novel methods for training translation models from non-parallel text.