EMNLP 2014/SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop

SSST-8

Eighth Workshop on

Syntax, Semantics and Structure

in Statistical Translation

Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat,

Xavier Carreras and Eva Maria Vecchi (editors)

25 October 2014

Doha, Qatar

Table of Contents

Vector space models for phrase-based machine translation

Tamer Alkhouli, Andreas Guta, Hermann Ney…………1-10

Bilingual Markov reordering labels for hierarchical SMT

Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Khalil Sima’an………..11-21

Better semantic frame based MT evaluation via inversion transduction grammars

Dekai Wu, Lo Chi-kiu, Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers……….22-33

Rule-based syntactic preprocessing for syntax-based machine translation

Yuto Hatakoshi, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura…………34-42

Applying HMEANT to English-Russian translations

Alexander Chuchunov, Alexander Tarelkin, Irina Galinskaya………..43-50

Reducing the impact of data sparsity in statistical machine translation

Karan Singla, Kunal Sachdeva, Diksha Yadav, Srinivas Bangalore, Diptil Misra Sharma……….51-56

Expanding the language model in a low-resource hybrid MT system

George Tambouratzis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Marina Vassillou…………57-66

Syntax and semantics in quality estimation of machine translation

Rasoul Kaljahi, Jennifer Foster, Johann Roturier………..67-77

Overcoming the curse of sentence length for neural machine translation using automatic segmentation

Jean Pouget-Abadie, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Bart van Merriënboer, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Benglo………..78-85

Ternary segmentation for improving search in top-down induction of segmental ITGs

Markus Saers & Dekai Wu……….86-93

A CYK+ variant for SCFG decoding without a dot chart

Rico Sennrich……….94-102

On the properties of neural machine translation: encoder-decoder approaches

Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merriënboer, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Yoshua Benglo…………103-111

Transduction recursive auto-associative memory: learning bilingual compositional distributed vector representations of inversion transduction grammars

Karteek Addanki & Dekai Wu………….112-121

Transformation and decomposition for efficiently implementing and improving dependency-to-string model in Moses

Liangyou Li, Jun Xie, Andy Way, Qun Liu…………122-131

Word’s vector representations meet machine translation

Eva Martínez Garcia, Jörg Tiedemann, Cristina España-Bonet, Lluís Màrquez……….132-134

Context sense clustering for translation

João Casteleiro, Gabriel Lopez, Joaquim Silva……….135-137

Evaluating word order recursively over permutation-forests

Miloš Stanojević & Khalil Sima’an………..138-147

Preference grammars and soft syntactic constraints for GHKM syntax-based statistical machine translation

Matthias Huck, Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn………..148-156

How synchronous are adjuncts in translation data

Sophie Arnoult & Khalil Sima’an…………157-165