Example-Based Machine Translation

Contents:

1. Introduction to EBMT
2. Our Basic EBMT System
3. Generalization
4. Results of Generalizing
5. Automated Generalization
6. Results of Automatic Generalization
7. Word-Level Alignment
8. Statistical Dictionaries
9. Applications of the Component Technologies

Personnel:

• Jaime G. Carbonell (Principal Investigator)
• Ralf D. Brown (Co-PI)

Bibliography:

• Ralf D. Brown, " Example-Based Machine Translation in the Pangloss System". In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), p. 169-174. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 5-9, 1996.
• Ralf D. Brown, " Automated Dictionary Extraction for ``Knowledge-Free'' Example-Based Translation". In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, p. 111-118. Santa Fe, July 23-25, 1997.
• Ralf D. Brown. " Automatically-Extracted Thesauri for Cross-Language IR: When Better is Worse".  In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM'98), Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998, pp. 15-21.
• Ralf D. Brown. "Adding Linguistic Knowledge to a Lexical Example-Based Translation System".  In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-99), p. 22-32. Chester, England, August 1999.
• Ralf D. Brown. "Automated Generalization of Translation Examples".  In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), p. 125-131. Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000.
• Ying Zhang, Ralf D. Brown, and Robert E. Frederking. "Adapting an Example-Based Translation System to Chinese".  In Proceedings of HLT 2001: First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, p. 7-10. San Diego, California, March 18-21, 2001.
• Ralf D. Brown. "Transfer-Rule Induction for Example-Based Translation".  In Proceedings of the MT Summit VIII Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, p. 1-11. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18 September 2001.
• Ralf D. Brown, "Example-Based Machine Translation", tutorial at AMTA-2002.
• Rebecca Hutchinson, Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter Jansen, Ralf Brown. "Maximal Lattice Overlap in Example-Based Machine Translation", Technical Report CMU-CS-03-138/CMU-LTI-03-174, June 2003.
• Ralf D. Brown, Rebecca Hutchinson, Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Peter Jansen.  "Reducing Boundary Friction Using Translation-Fragment Overlap".  In Proceedings of the Ninth Machine Translation Summit, New Orleans, USA, September 2003, pp. 24-31.
• Ralf D. Brown, "A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly-Scalable Example-Based Translation", in Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research, Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation (AMTA-2004), Washington, D.C., USA, September/October 2004, pp. 27-36. Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3265, ISSN 0302-9743.