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A comparison of head transducers and transfer for a limited domain translation application

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Adam L. Buchsbaum,

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ACL '98/EACL '98: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 360 - 365

https://doi.org/10.3115/976909.979663

Published: 07 July 1997 Publication History

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We compare the effectiveness of two related machine translation models applied to the same limited-domain task. One is a transfer model with monolingual head automata for analysis and generation; the other is a direct transduction model based on bilingual head transducers. We conclude that the head transducer model is more effective according to measures of accuracy, computational requirements, model size, and development effort.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1023/A%3A1025539822079
Alshawi HBangalore SDouglas S(2019)Head-Transducer Models for Speech Translation and TheirAutomatic Acquisition from Bilingual DataMachine Translation10.1023/A:101118733096915:1/2(105-124)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2019
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Alshawi HBangalore SDouglas SBoitet CWhitelock P(1998)Automatic acquisition of hierarchical transduction models for machine translationProceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 110.3115/980845.980853(41-47)Online publication date: 10-Aug-1998
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/980845.980853

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ACL '98/EACL '98: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Al-Onaizan YGermann UHermjakob UKnight KKoehn PMarcu DYamada K(2019)Translation with Scarce Bilingual ResourcesMachine Translation10.1023/A:102553982207917:1(1-17)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1023/A%3A1025539822079
Alshawi HBangalore SDouglas S(2019)Head-Transducer Models for Speech Translation and TheirAutomatic Acquisition from Bilingual DataMachine Translation10.1023/A:101118733096915:1/2(105-124)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1023/A%3A1011187330969
Alshawi HBangalore SDouglas SBoitet CWhitelock P(1998)Automatic acquisition of hierarchical transduction models for machine translationProceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 110.3115/980845.980853(41-47)Online publication date: 10-Aug-1998
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/980845.980853

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