UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium,
February 25, 1998
Advances in Empirical Methods for Translation Model Construction
I. Dan Melamed
University of Pennsylvania
UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium
February 25, 1998,
4pm, AVW Room 4406
The quality of available translation models, statistical or not, is a
major limiting factor in the performance of many applications, such as
cross-language information retrieval. In this talk, I will present
recent advances in automatic methods for translation model construction
that can either supplement or replace manual methods. Major advances
include the ability to handle arbitrarily noisy training data, the
ability to incorporate various types of pre-existing knowledge, and
the ability to account for non-compositional "phrasal" translation.
For the colloquium series schedule, see the UMD
Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series web page at
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/cl_colloquium/. If you are interested
in meeting with the speaker, please contact Mari Broman Olsen (molsen@umiacs.umd.edu) or Philip Resnik (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu).