Concept
Grammatical tense
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Discourse-level features for statistical machine translation
Machine Translation (MT) has progressed tremendously in the past two decades. The rule-based and interlingua approaches have been superseded by statistical models, which learn the most likely translations from large parallel corpora. System design does not ...
EPFL2015Cross-linguistic annotation of narrativity for English/French verb tense disambiguation
This paper presents manual and automatic annotation experiments for a pragmatic verb tense feature (narrativity) in English/French parallel corpora. The feature is considered to play an important role for translating English Simple Past tense into French, ...
2014English-French Verb Phrase Alignment in Europarl for Tense Translation Modeling
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer
This paper presents a method for verb phrase (VP) alignment in an English/French parallel corpus and its use for improving statistical machine translation (SMT) of verb tenses. The method starts from automatic word alignment performed with GIZA++, and reli ...
2014Discourse-level Features for Statistical Machine Translation
Machine Translation (MT) has progressed tremendously in the past two decades. The rule-based and interlingua approaches have been superseded by statistical models, which learn the most likely translations from large parallel corpora. System design does not ...
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)2014Detecting Narrativity to Improve English to French Translation of Simple Past Verbs
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer
The correct translation of verb tenses ensures that the temporal ordering of events in the source text is maintained in the target text. This paper assesses the utility of automatically labeling English Simple Past verbs with a binary discursive feature, n ...
2013