ACL 2012/SIGMT/SIGLEX
Workshop
SSST-6
Sixth Workshop on
Syntax, Semantics and
Structure in
Statistical Translation
Marine Carpuat, Lucia Specia and Dekai Wu (editors)
July 12-13, 2012
Table of contents
WSD for n-best reranking and local language modeling
in SMT
Marianna Apidianaki, GuillaumeWisniewski, Artem Sokolov,
Aurélien Max and François Yvon …… 1
Linguistically-Enriched
Models for Bulgarian-to-English Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov . . . . . .. . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Enriching
Parallel Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation with Semantic Negation
Rephrasing
Dominikus Wetzel and Francis Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Towards
a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT
Ondřej Bojar and Dekai Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rudolf Rosa, Ondřej Dušek, David Mareček and
Martin Popel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Unsupervised
vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics
Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Head
Finalization Reordering for Chinese-to-Japanese Machine Translation
Dan Han, Katsuhito Sudoh, Xianchao Wu, Kevin Duh, Hajime
Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata . ……57
Extracting Semantic Transfer Rules from Parallel
Corpora with SMT Phrase Aligners
Petter Haugereid and Francis Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Towards Probabilistic Acceptors and Transducers for
Feature Structures
Daniel Quernheim and Kevin Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 76
Using
Domain-specific and Collaborative Resources for Term Translation
Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann and Paul Buitelaar . . .
. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Improving
Statistical Machine Translation through co-joining parts of verbal constructs
Karunesh Kumar Arora and R. Mahesh K. Sinha . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Application
of Clause Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
Svetla Koeva, Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova, Rositsa
Dekova, Angel Genov,
Borislav Rizov, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Ekaterina Tarpomanova
and Hristina Kukova . .. 102
Zero
Pronoun Resolution can Improve the Quality of J-E Translation
Hirotoshi Taira, Katsuhito Sudoh and Masaaki Nagata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111