The ATR multilingual speech-to-speech translation system

S Nakamura, K Markov, H Nakaiwa… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe the ATR multilingual speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system,
which is mainly focused on translation between English and Asian languages (Japanese …

[PDF][PDF] Sentence-level MT evaluation without reference translations: Beyond language modeling

M Gamon, A Aue, M Smets - Proceedings of the 10th EAMT …, 2005 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we investigate the possibility of evaluating MT quality and fluency at the
sentence level in the absence of reference translations. We measure the correlation …

Machine translation apparatus and machine translation computer program

T Watanabe, E Sumita - US Patent 7,925,493, 2011 - Google Patents
EDT DISTANCE COMPUTING UN ing, on each of the sentences selected in the step of
selecting, the steps of extracting, computing and selecting, until the likelihood no longer …

[PDF][PDF] Rule based machine translation combined with statistical post editor for japanese to english patent translation

E Terumasa - Proceedings of the Workshop on Patent translation, 2007 - aclanthology.org
Since sentences in patent texts are long, they are difficult to translate by a machine.
Although statistical machine translation is one of the major streams of the field, long patent …

Multi-source translation methods

L Schwartz - Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association …, 2008 - aclanthology.org
Multi-parallel corpora provide a potentially rich resource for machine translation. This paper
surveys existing methods for utilizing such resources, including hypothesis ranking and …

22 Question Answering

B Webber, N Webb - The handbook of computational linguistics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Questions are asked and answered every day. Question answering (QA) technology aims to
deliver the same facility online. It goes further than the more familiar search based on …

[PDF][PDF] Hybrid machine translation architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project

A Eisele, C Federmann, H Uszkoreit… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents two hybrid architectures combining rulebased and statistical machine
translation (RBMT and SMT) technology. In the first case, several existing MT engines are …

Example-based decoding for statistical machine translation

T Watanabe, E Sumita - … of Machine Translation Summit IX: Papers, 2003 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents a decoder for statistical machine translation that can take advantage of
the example-based machine translation framework. The decoder presented here is based …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-engine machine translation with voted language model

T Nomoto - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the …, 2004 - aclanthology.org
The paper describes a particular approach to multiengine machine translation (MEMT),
where we make use of voted language models to selectively combine translation outputs …

[PDF][PDF] Example-based machine translation based on syntactic transfer with statistical models

K Imamura, H Okuma, T Watanabe… - … 2004: Proceedings of …, 2004 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents example-based machine translation (MT) based on syntactic transfer,
which selects the best translation by using models of statistical machine translation …