Information Retrieval
A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
HMM-based word alignment in statistical translation
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
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
A probability model to improve word alignment
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - 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 evaluation exercise for word alignment
HLT-NAACL-PARALLEL '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond - Volume 3
Aligning words using matrix factorisation
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Log-linear models for word alignment
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Improved discriminative bilingual word alignment
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Semi-supervised training for statistical word alignment
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
NeurAlign: combining word alignments using neural networks
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
A maximum entropy word aligner for Arabic-English machine translation
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Word alignment via quadratic assignment
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Word alignment for languages with scarce resources
ParaText '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts
ISI's participation in the Romanian-English alignment task
ParaText '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts
Chinese word segmentation and statistical machine translation
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Statistical machine translation
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Constructing corpora for the development and evaluation of paraphrase systems
Computational Linguistics
Rich bitext projection features for parse reranking
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A phrase-based alignment model for natural language inference
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Empirical lower bounds on alignment error rates in syntax-based machine translation
SSST '09 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
Discriminative word alignment via alignment matrix modeling
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Using syntax to improve word alignment precision for syntax-based machine translation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Improved statistical machine translation by multiple Chinese word segmentation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Improving alignment for SMT by reordering and augmenting the training corpus
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Computational Linguistics
Confidence measure for word alignment
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 2 - Volume 2
IWPT '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
Improving statistical machine translation using domain bilingual multiword expressions
MWE '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications
Using parallel PropBanks to enhance word-alignments
ACL-IJCNLP '09 Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Improved word alignment with statistics and linguistic heuristics
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Weighted alignment matrices for statistical machine translation
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Active learning-based elicitation for semi-supervised word alignment
ACLShort '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers
MCTLLL '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning
A discriminative approach to tree alignment
MCTLLL '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning
Active semi-supervised learning for improving word alignment
ALNLP '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing
Improving word alignment by semi-supervised ensemble
CoNLL '10 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Discriminative word alignment with a function word reordering model
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Improved discriminative ITG alignment using hierarchical phrase pairs and semi-supervised training
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
A power mean based algorithm for combining multiple alignment tables
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Discriminative word alignment by linear modeling
Computational Linguistics
Generating phrasal and sentential paraphrases: A survey of data-driven methods
Computational Linguistics
Measuring historical word sense variation
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Gappy phrasal alignment by agreement
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
How much can we gain from supervised word alignment?
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Probabilistic word alignment under the L0-norm
CoNLL '11 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Improving MT word alignment using aligned multi-stage parses
SSST-5 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English--Swahili
Language Resources and Evaluation
A lightweight evaluation framework for machine translation reordering
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
A correction model for word alignments
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
SyMGiza++: symmetrized word alignment models for statistical machine translation
SIIS'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Security and Intelligent Information Systems
Learning to translate: a statistical and computational analysis
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Information and Communication Technology
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Smaller alignment models for better translations: unsupervised word alignment with the l0-norm
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Enhancing statistical machine translation with character alignment
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
What types of word alignment improve statistical machine translation?
Machine Translation
Statistical machine translation enhancements through linguistic levels: A survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Automatic word alignment plays a critical role in statistical machine translation. Unfortunately, the relationship between alignment quality and statistical machine translation performance has not been well understood. In the recent literature, the alignment task has frequently been decoupled from the translation task and assumptions have been made about measuring alignment quality for machine translation which, it turns out, are not justified. In particular, none of the tens of papers published over the last five years has shown that significant decreases in alignment error rate (AER) result in significant increases in translation performance. This paper explains this state of affairs and presents steps towards measuring alignment quality in a way which is predictive of statistical machine translation performance.