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The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
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Chunk-based statistical translation
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Extensions to HMM-based statistical word alignment models
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
A phrase-based, joint probability model for statistical machine translation
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A projection extension algorithm for statistical machine translation
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Most statistical translation systems are based on phrase translation pairs, or "blocks", which are obtained mainly from word alignment. We use blocks to infer better word alignment and improved word alignment which, in turn, leads to better inference of blocks. We propose two new probabilistic models based on the inner-outer segmentations and use EM algorithms for estimating the models' parameters. The first model recovers IBM Model-1 as a special case. Both models outperform bidirectional IBM Model-4 in terms of word alignment accuracy by 10% absolute on the F-measure. Using blocks obtained from the models in actual translation systems yields statistically significant improvements in Chinese-English SMT evaluation.