A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation.

Large-scale discriminative machine translation promises to further the state-of-the-art, but has failed to deliver convincing gains over current heuristic frequency count systems.We argue that a principle reason for this failure is not dealing with multiple, equivalent translations. We present a tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blunsom, P, Cohn, T, Osborne, M
Other Authors: McKeown, K
Format: Conference item
Published: Association for Computer Linguistics 2008