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Discourse-level features for statistical machine translation

Thomas Meyer

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 The rule-based and interlingua approaches have been superseded by statistical models, which learn the most likely translations from large parallel corpora.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 ...

EPFL2015

Disambiguating Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Thomas Meyer

This paper shows that the automatic labeling of discourse connectives with the relations they signal, prior to machine translation (MT), can be used by phrase-based statistical MT systems to improve their translations. This improvement is demonstrated here ...

2015

Discourse-level Features for Statistical Machine Translation

Thomas Meyer

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)2014

Cross-linguistic annotation of narrativity for English/French verb tense disambiguation

Thomas Meyer

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, ...

2014

Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation of a Swiss German Dialect: Walliserdeutsch

Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Thomas Meyer

Walliserdeutsch is a Swiss German dialect spoken in the south west of Switzerland. To investigate the potential of automatic speech processing of Walliserdeutsch, a small database was collected based mainly on broadcast news from a local radio station. Exp ...

2014

English-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 ...

2014

Machine Translation with Many Manually Labeled Discourse Connectives

Thomas Meyer

The paper presents machine translation experiments from English to Czech with a large amount of manually annotated discourse connectives. The gold-standard discourse relation annotation leads to better translation performance in ranges of 4–60% for some am ...

2013

Detecting 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

Explicit discourse connectives in a source language text are not always translated to comparable words or phrases in the target language. The paper provides a corpus analysis and a method for semi-automatic detection of such cases. Results show that discou ...

2013

Europarl is a large multilingual corpus containing the minutes of the debates at the European Parliament. This article presents a method to extract different corpora from Europarl: monolingual and multilingual comparable corpora, as well as parallel corpor ...

2013