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| Publication date |
2008
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| Book title |
SLT 2008: 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology: Proceedings
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| Event |
2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2008), Goa, India
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| Pages (from-to) |
237-240
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| Publisher |
IEEE
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| Organisations |
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Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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| Abstract |
The heuristic estimates of conditional phrase translation probabilities are based on frequency counts in a word-aligned parallel corpus. Earlier attempts at more principled estimation using Expectation-Maximization (EM) underperform this heuristic. This paper shows that a recently introduced novel estimator based on smoothing might provide a good alternative. When all phrase pairs are estimated (no length cut-off), this estimator slightly outperforms the heuristic estimator.
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| Document type |
Conference contribution
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1109/SLT.2008.4777884
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