Graph convolutional encoders for syntax-aware neural machine translation

J Bastings, I Titov, W Aziz, D Marcheggiani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We present a simple and effective approach to incorporating syntactic structure into neural
attention-based encoder-decoder models for machine translation. We rely on graph …

[PDF][PDF] Simple English Wikipedia: a new text simplification task

W Coster, D Kauchak - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we examine the task of sentence simplification which aims to reduce the
reading complexity of a sentence by incorporating more accessible vocabulary and …

[PDF][PDF] Tuning as ranking

M Hopkins, J May - Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
We offer a simple, effective, and scalable method for statistical machine translation
parameter tuning based on the pairwise approach to ranking (Herbrich et al., 1999). Unlike …

[PDF][PDF] Learning to simplify sentences using wikipedia

W Coster, D Kauchak - … of the workshop on monolingual text-to …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we examine the sentence simplification problem as an English-to-English
translation problem, utilizing a corpus of 137K aligned sentence pairs extracted by aligning …

[PDF][PDF] Semantics-based machine translation with hyperedge replacement grammars

B Jones, J Andreas, D Bauer… - … of COLING 2012, 2012 - aclanthology.org
We present an approach to semantics-based statistical machine translation that uses
synchronous hyperedge replacement grammars to translate into and from graph-shaped …

Soft syntactic constraints for Arabic–English hierarchical phrase-based translation

Y Marton, D Chiang, P Resnik - Machine Translation, 2012 - Springer
In adding syntax to statistical machine translation, there is a tradeoff between taking
advantage of linguistic analysis and allowing the model to exploit parallel training data with …

[PDF][PDF] Hope and Fear for Discriminative Training of Statistical Translation Models.

D Chiang - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2012 - jmlr.org
In machine translation, discriminative models have almost entirely supplanted the classical
noisychannel model, but are standardly trained using a method that is reliable only in low …

[PDF][PDF] Translation model adaptation for statistical machine translation with monolingual topic information

J Su, H Wu, H Wang, Y Chen, X Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
To adapt a translation model trained from the data in one domain to another, previous works
paid more attention to the studies of parallel corpus while ignoring the in-domain …

Post-ordering by parsing with ITG for Japanese-English statistical machine translation

I Goto, M Utiyama, E Sumita - ACM Transactions on Asian Language …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Word reordering is a difficult task for translation between languages with widely different
word orders, such as Japanese and English. A previously proposed post-ordering method …

[PDF][PDF] Incremental syntactic language models for phrase-based translation

L Schwartz, C Callison-Burch… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes a novel technique for incorporating syntactic knowledge into
phrasebased machine translation through incremental syntactic parsing. Bottom-up and …