What's in a Translation Rule

Abstract

We propose a theory that gives formal semantics to word-level alignments defined over parallel corpora. We use our theory to introduce a linear algorithm that can be used to derive from word-aligned, parallel corpora the minimal set of syntactically motivated transformation rules that explain human translation data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA460212

Entities

People

  • Daniel Marcu
  • Kevin Knight
  • Mark Hopkins
  • Michel Galley

Organizations

  • Columbia University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Alphabets
  • Chinese Language
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science
  • Crossings
  • Extraction
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics