Computational Combinatorial Optimization, Optimal or Provably Near-Optimal Solutions [based on a Spring School]
Word reordering and a dynamic programming beam search algorithm for statistical machine translation
Computational Linguistics
The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Fast decoding and optimal decoding for machine translation
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Statistical phrase-based translation
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
Minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
An efficient A* search algorithm for statistical machine translation
DMMT '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Data-driven methods in machine translation - Volume 14
Local phrase reordering models for statistical machine translation
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
A fast finite-state relaxation method for enforcing global constraints on sequence decoding
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
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
Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing: Post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop FSMNLP 2008
Incremental integer linear programming for non-projective dependency parsing
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Dependency parsing by belief propagation
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Revisiting optimal decoding for machine translation IBM model 4
NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Efficient dynamic programming search algorithms for phrase-based SMT
CHSLP '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing
Approximate Primal Solutions and Rate Analysis for Dual Subgradient Methods
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Phrase-based statistical machine translation as a traveling salesman problem
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
On dual decomposition and linear programming relaxations for natural language processing
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Dual decomposition for parsing with non-projective head automata
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms
Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms
Exact decoding of syntactic translation models through Lagrangian relaxation
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
MAP estimation via agreement on trees: message-passing and linear programming
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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
An exact dual decomposition algorithm for shallow semantic parsing with constraints
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
On amortizing inference cost for structured prediction
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Exact sampling and decoding in high-order hidden Markov models
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
On hierarchical re-ordering and permutation parsing for phrase-based decoding
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Direct error rate minimization for statistical machine translation
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Lattice BLEU oracles in machine translation
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
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This paper describes an algorithm for exact decoding of phrase-based translation models, based on Lagrangian relaxation. The method recovers exact solutions, with certificates of optimality, on over 99% of test examples. The method is much more efficient than approaches based on linear programming (LP) or integer linear programming (ILP) solvers: these methods are not feasible for anything other than short sentences. We compare our method to MOSES (Koehn et al., 2007), and give precise estimates of the number and magnitude of search errors that MOSES makes.