Summary: Variational Decoding for Statistical
Machine Translation
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner, and Sanjeev Khudanpur
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Computer Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
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Spurious Ambiguity
· Statistical models in MT exhibit spurious
ambiguity
· Many different derivations (e.g., trees or
segmentations) generate the same translation string
· Regular phrase-based MT systems
· phrase segmentation ambiguity
· Tree-based MT systems
· derivation tree ambiguity
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machine translation

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences