The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

We present a version of Inversion Transduction Grammar where rule probabilities are
lexicalized throughout the synchronous parse tree, along with pruning techniques for …

We present a new implication of Wu's (1997) Inversion Transduction Grammar (ITG)
Hypothesis, on the problem of retrieving truly parallel sentence translations from large …

This paper describes a study of the patterns of translational equivalence exhibited by a
variety of bitexts. The study found that the complexity of these patterns in every bitext was …

Word alignment is the problem of annotating parallel text with translational correspondence.
Previous generative word alignment models have made structural assumptions such as the …

We present a phrasal inversion transduction grammar as an alternative to joint phrasal
translation models. This syntactic model is similar to its flatstring phrasal predecessors, but …

Word alignment methods can gain valuable guidance by ensuring that their alignments
maintain cohesion with respect to the phrases specified by a monolingual dependency tree …

In this thesis I explore Bayesian models for word alignment, how they can be improved
through joint annotation transfer, and how they can be extended to parallel texts in more …

We present first results using paraphrase as well as textual entailment data to test the
language universal constraint posited by Wu's (1995, 1997) Inversion Transduction …

The empirical adequacy of synchronous context-free grammars of rank two (2-SCFGs)(Satta
and Peserico, 2005), used in syntaxbased machine translation systems such as Wu (1997) …