The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don't understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how Machine Learning techniques can improve Statistical Machine Translation, currently at the forefront of research in the field. The book looks first at enabling technologies-technologies that solve problems that are not Machine Translation proper but are linked closely to the development of a Machine Translation system. These include the acquisition of bilingual sentence-aligned data from comparable corpora, automatic construction of multilingual name dictionaries, and word alignment. The book then presents new or improved statistical Machine Translation techniques, including a discriminative training framework for leveraging syntactic information, the use of semi-supervised and kernel-based learning methods, and the combination of multiple Machine Translation outputs in order to improve overall translation quality. Contributors Srinivas Bangalore, Nicola Cancedda, Josep M. Crego, Marc Dymetman, Jakob Elming, George Foster, Jesus Gimenez, Cyril Goutte, Nizar Habash, Gholamreza Haffari, Patrick Haffner, Hitoshi Isahara, Stephan Kanthak, Alexandre Klementiev, Gregor Leusch, Pierre Mahe, Lluis Marquez, Evgeny Matusov, I. Dan Melamed, Ion Muslea, Hermann Ney, Bruno Pouliquen, Dan Roth, Anoop Sarkar, John Shawe-Taylor, Ralf Steinberger, Joseph Turian, Nicola Ueffing, Masao Utiyama, Zhuoran Wang, Benjamin Wellington, Kenji Yamada
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Nicola Cancedda, Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara, Marc Dymetman, George Foster, Cyril Goutte, MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262072977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95293560
Product Key Features
Author
George Foster, Nicola Cancedda, Cyril Goutte, Marc Dymetman
Publication Name
Learning Machine Translation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254mm
Item Width
203mm
Item Weight
862g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Neural Information Processing Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Marc Dymetman, George Foster, Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda