Translation with Finite-State Devices

  • Authors:
  • Kevin Knight;Yaser Al-Onaizan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AMTA '98 Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas on Machine Translation and the Information Soup
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Statistical models have recently been applied to machine translation with interesting results. Algorithms for processing these models have not received wide circulation, however. By contrast, general finite-state transduction algorithms have been applied in a variety of tasks. This paper gives a finite-state reconstruction of statistical translation and demonstrates the use of standard tools to compute statistically likely translations. Ours is the first translation algorithm for "fertility/permutation" statistical models to be described in replicable detail.