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February 2009
8 x 10, 328 pp., 55 illus.
$45.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-07297-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-07297-7

Series
Neural Information Processing
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Learning Machine Translation
Edited by Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman and George Foster

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, Jesús Giménez, Cyril Goutte, Nizar Habash, Gholamreza Haffari, Patrick Haffner, Hitoshi Isahara, Stephan Kanthak, Alexandre Klementiev, Gregor Leusch, Pierre Mahé, Lluís Màrquez, 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

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About the Editors

Cyril Goutte is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology.

Nicola Cancedda is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.

Marc Dymetman is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.

George Foster is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology.




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