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Joint Phrase Alignment and Extraction for Statistical Machine Translation
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Graham Neubig
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Taro Watanabe
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Eiichiro Sumita
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Shinsuke Mori
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Tatsuya Kawahara
… The phrase table, a scored list of bilingual phrases, lies at the center of phrase-based machine translation systems. … We present a method to directly learn this phrase table from a parallel corpus of sentences that are not aligned at the word level. … This allows for the direct learning of a phrase table that achieves competitive accuracy without the complicated multi-step process of word alignment and phrase extraction that is used in previous research. …
IPSJ Journal 53(3), 12p, 2012-03-15
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