Experiments with a Hindi-to-English transfer-based MT system under a miserly data scenario
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
Adaptation using out-of-domain corpus within EBMT
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
A phrase-based unigram model for statistical machine translation
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
Towards a speech-to-speech machine translation quality metric
S2S '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Speech-to-speech translation: algorithms and systems - Volume 7
A projection extension algorithm for statistical machine translation
EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
The Long-Term Forecast for Weather Bulletin Translation
Machine Translation
A weighted finite state transducer translation template model for statistical machine translation
Natural Language Engineering
Words are not enough: sentence level natural language watermarking
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Contents protection and security
Wide coverage symbolic surface realization
ACLdemo '04 Proceedings of the ACL 2004 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions
The effect of translation quality in MT-based cross-language information retrieval
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Example-based machine translation based on syntactic transfer with statistical models
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Splitting input sentence for machine translation using language model with sentence similarity
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Reordering constraints for phrase-based statistical machine translation
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Confidence estimation for machine translation
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
BLANC: learning evaluation metrics for MT
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Translating with non-contiguous phrases
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Grammatical machine translation
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Improving statistical machine translation using shallow linguistic knowledge
Computer Speech and Language
Automatic Evaluation of Information Ordering: Kendall's Tau
Computational Linguistics
MT evaluation: human-like vs. human acceptable
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Stochastic iterative alignment for machine translation evaluation
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Supervised automatic evaluation for summarization with voted regression model
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Improving statistical MT by coupling reordering and decoding
Machine Translation
Statistical machine translation
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Learning to sportscast: a test of grounded language acquisition
Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning
Evaluating machine translation with LFG dependencies
Machine Translation
German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation
GoTAL '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
MSD Recombination for Statistical Machine Translation into Highly-Inflected Languages
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Joining linguistic and statistical methods for Spanish-to-Basque speech translation
Speech Communication
Simultaneous translation of lectures and speeches
Machine Translation
Bilingual LSA-based adaptation for statistical machine translation
Machine Translation
Two-Stage Hypotheses Generation for Spoken Language Translation
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
On the Automatic Learning of Bilingual Resources: Some Relevant Factors for Machine Translation
SBIA '08 Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
METIS-II: low resource machine translation
Machine Translation
Regression for machine translation evaluation at the sentence level
Machine Translation
Natural Language Engineering
Bilingual Cluster Based Models for Statistical Machine Translation
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Bilingually Motivated Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
A Chinese-Japanese Lexical Machine Translation through a Pivot Language
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Validity of an Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Using a Word-Alignment-Based Classifier
ICCPOL '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy
Meta-evaluation of Machine Translation Using Parallel Legal Texts
ICCPOL '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy
Choosing the Best MT Programs for CLIR Purposes --- Can MT Metrics Be Helpful?
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
Toward communicating simple sentences using pictorial representations
Machine Translation
Intrinsic vs. extrinsic evaluation measures for referring expression generation
HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
Trainable speaker-based referring expression generation
CoNLL '08 Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Automatic generation of parallel treebanks
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Bilingually motivated domain-adapted word segmentation for statistical machine translation
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
System building cost vs. output quality in data-to-text generation
ENLG '09 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Bridging the inflection morphology gap for Arabic statistical machine translation
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
ILR-based MT comprehension test with multi-level questions
NAACL-Short '07 Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
Streaming for large scale NLP: language modeling
NAACL '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
DEW '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions
Imposing constraints from the source tree on ITG constraints for SMT
SSST '08 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
SSST '07 Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
A walk on the other side: adding statistical components to a transfer-based translation system
SSST '07 Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
Dependency-based automatic evaluation for machine translation
SSST '07 Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
SSST '09 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
Word error rates: decomposition over Pos classes and applications for error analysis
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Human evaluation of machine translation through binary system comparisons
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Labelled dependencies in machine translation evaluation
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
(Meta-) evaluation of machine translation
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Linguistic features for automatic evaluation of heterogenous MT systems
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Rich source-side context for statistical machine translation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Learning performance of a machine translation system: a statistical and computational analysis
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Dynamic model interpolation for statistical machine translation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
A simple automatic MT evaluation metric
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Textual entailment features for machine translation evaluation
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
On the robustness of syntactic and semantic features for automatic MT evaluation
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Evaluating coverage for large symbolic NLG grammars
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Training data modification for SMT considering groups of synonymous sentences
EMSEE '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment
Evalinitiatives '03 Proceedings of the EACL 2003 Workshop on Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable?
ParaText '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts
Novel reordering approaches in phrase-based statistical machine translation
ParaText '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts
Training and evaluating error minimization rules for statistical machine translation
ParaText '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts
Morpho-syntactic information for automatic error analysis of statistical machine translation output
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Morpho-syntactic Arabic preprocessing for Arabic-to-English statistical machine translation
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Discriminative reordering models for statistical machine translation
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
N-gram posterior probabilities for statistical machine translation
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Partitioning parallel documents using binary segmentation
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Contextual bitext-derived paraphrases in automatic MT evaluation
StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Data cleaning for word alignment
ACLstudent '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop
Robust machine translation evaluation with entailment features
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
The contribution of linguistic features to automatic machine translation evaluation
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
Learning stochastic bracketing inversion transduction grammars with a cubic time biparsing algorithm
IWPT '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
Natural language generation with tree conditional random fields
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Bidirectional phrase-based statistical machine translation
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 3 - Volume 3
ATEC: automatic evaluation of machine translation via word choice and word order
Machine Translation
MaxSim: performance and effects of translation fluency
Machine Translation
Information and Software Technology
Stat-XFER: a general search-based syntax-driven framework for machine translation
CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
Machine translation evaluation versus quality estimation
Machine Translation
Formal and functional assessment of the pyramid method for summary content evaluation*
Natural Language Engineering
Word alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The best lexical metric for phrase-based statistical MT system optimization
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Pseudo-word for phrase-based machine translation
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
TrustRank: inducing trust in automatic translations via ranking
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving SMT for Baltic Languages with Factored Models
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Human Language Technologies -- The Baltic Perspective: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Baltic HLT 2010
Training a multilingual sportscaster: using perceptual context to learn language
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Using common sense to generate culturally contextualized machine translation
YIWCALA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Young Investigators Workshop on Computational Approaches to Languages of the Americas
Linear inversion transduction grammar alignments as a second translation path
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
Adaptive model weighting and transductive regression for predicting best system combinations
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
L1 regularized regression for reranking and system combination in machine translation
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
Using cultural knowledge to assist communication between people with different cultural background
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Assessing the trade-off between system building cost and output quality in data-to-text generation
Empirical methods in natural language generation
Introducing shared tasks to NLG: the TUNA shared task evaluation challenges
Empirical methods in natural language generation
Missing phrase recovering by combining forward and backward phrase translation tables
PAKDD'09 Proceedings of the 13th Pacific-Asia international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining: new frontiers in applied data mining
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
A mining technique using n-grams and motion transcripts for body sensor network data repository
WH '10 Wireless Health 2010
Factored translation between Brazilian Portuguese and English
SBIA'10 Proceedings of the 20th Brazilian conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Short communication: A SomAgent statistical machine translation
Applied Soft Computing
All in strings: a powerful string-based automatic MT evaluation metric with multiple granularities
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Exploitation of Machine Learning Techniques in Modelling Phrase Movements for Machine Translation
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Packing it all up in search for a language independent MT quality measure tool - part two
LTC'09 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Human language technology: challenges for computer science and linguistics
Improvement of machine translation evaluation by simple linguistically motivated features
Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special issue on natural language processing
Linguistic measures for automatic machine translation evaluation
Machine Translation
Syntax-based statistical machine translation using tree automata and tree transducers
HLT-SS '11 Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
AM-FM: a semantic framework for translation quality assessment
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Automatic evaluation of Chinese translation output: word-level or character-level?
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Automatic projection of semantic structures: an application to pairwise translation ranking
SSST-5 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Structured vs. flat semantic role representations for machine translation evaluation
SSST-5 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Combining statistical and semantic approaches to the translation of ontologies and taxonomies
SSST-5 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Improved Chinese--English SMT with Chinese “DE” Construction Classification and Reordering
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Towards predicting post-editing productivity
Machine Translation
Automatic sentence generation from images
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Understanding images with natural sentences
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
A stylometric study and assessment of machine translators
IDA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in intelligent data analysis X
Towards automatic error analysis of machine translation output
Computational Linguistics
Text segmentation criteria for statistical machine translation
FinTAL'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
An english-hindi statistical machine translation system
IJCNLP'04 Proceedings of the First international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Towards strict sentence intersection: decoding and evaluation strategies
MTTG '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation
Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey
Computational Linguistics
Construct trilingual parallel corpus on demand
ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Translating from complex to simplified sentences
PROPOR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
AMBER: a modified BLEU, enhanced ranking metric
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Regression and ranking based optimisation for sentence level machine translation evaluation
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Productive generation of compound words in statistical machine translation
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Dialectal to standard Arabic paraphrasing to improve Arabic-English statistical machine translation
DIALECTS '11 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
Corroborating text evaluation results with heterogeneous measures
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Phrase-based statistical machine translation: a level of detail approach
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
A phrase-based context-dependent joint probability model for named entity translation
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
A machine learning-based evaluation method for machine translation
SETN'10 Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic conference on Artificial Intelligence: theories, models and applications
Dublin city university at CLEF 2004: experiments with the ImageCLEF st. andrew's collection
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
Evaluation metrics for consistent translation of japanese legal sentences
Semantic Processing of Legal Texts
Applying machine translation evaluation techniques to textual CBR
ICCBR'10 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
SMT versus AI redux: how semantic fames evaluate MT more accurately
IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Three
Learning to translate: a statistical and computational analysis
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Re-examining machine translation metrics for paraphrase identification
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
UNED: evaluating text similarity measures without human assessments
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
FBK: machine translation evaluation and word similarity metrics for semantic textual similarity
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
SAGAN: an approach to semantic textual similarity based on textual entailment
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
Bootstrapping method for chunk alignment in phrase based SMT
EACL 2012 Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra)
Clustered word classes for preordering in statistical machine translation
ROBUS-UNSUP '12 Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP
PORT: a precision-order-recall MT evaluation metric for tuning
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Sentence simplification by monolingual machine translation
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Probabilistic finite state machines for regression-based MT evaluation
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Document-wide decoding for phrase-based statistical machine translation
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics
SSST-6 '12 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Using domain-specific and collaborative resources for term translation
SSST-6 '12 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Semantic textual similarity for MT evaluation
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
SPEDE: probabilistic edit distance metrics for MT evaluation
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Match without a referee: evaluating MT adequacy without reference translations
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Fully automatic semantic MT evaluation
WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Efficient image annotation for automatic sentence generation
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Computer Speech and Language
A machine-learning framework for hybrid machine translation
KI'12 Proceedings of the 35th Annual German conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Engineering
picoTrans: An intelligent icon-driven interface for cross-lingual communication
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) - Special section on internet-scale human problem solving and regular papers
CICLing'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume 2
Automatic and human evaluation on english-croatian legislative test set
CICLing'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume 2
SPARQL2NL: verbalizing sparql queries
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Sorry, i don't speak SPARQL: translating SPARQL queries into natural language
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
SLSP'13 Proceedings of the First international conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing
Fusion of word and letter based metrics for automatic MT evaluation
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
Exploiting discourse information to identify paraphrases
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Generation of compound words in statistical machine translation into compounding languages
Computational Linguistics
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Evaluation is recognized as an extremely helpful forcing function in Human Language Technology R&D. Unfortunately, evaluation has not been a very powerful tool in machine translation (MT) research because it requires human judgments and is thus expensive and time-consuming and not easily factored into the MT research agenda. However, at the July 2001 TIDES PI meeting in Philadelphia, IBM described an automatic MT evaluation technique that can provide immediate feedback and guidance in MT research. Their idea, which they call an "evaluation understudy", compares MT output with expert reference translations in terms of the statistics of short sequences of words (word N-grams). The more of these N-grams that a translation shares with the reference translations, the better the translation is judged to be. The idea is elegant in its simplicity. But far more important, IBM showed a strong correlation between these automatically generated scores and human judgments of translation quality. As a result, DARPA commissioned NIST to develop an MT evaluation facility based on the IBM work. This utility is now available from NIST and serves as the primary evaluation measure for TIDES MT research.