@article {16717, title = {Generalizing Word Lattice Translation}, year = {2008}, month = {2008/02//}, institution = {Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park}, abstract = {Word lattice decoding has proven useful in spoken language translation; we argue that it provides a compelling model for translation of text genres, as well. We extend lattice decoding to hierarchical phrase-based models, providing a unified treatment with phrase-based decoding by treating lattices as a case of weighted finite-state automata. In the process, we resolve a significant complication that lattice representations introduce in reordering models. Our experiments evaluating the approach demonstrate substantial gains for Chinese-English and Arabic-English translation.}, keywords = {*MACHINE TRANSLATION, *STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION, *WORD LATTICE TRANSLATION, grammars, HIERARCHICAL PHRASE-BASED MODELS, linguistics, MODELS, STATISTICAL PROCESSES}, url = {http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?\&verb=getRecord\&metadataPrefix=html\&identifier=ADA481994}, author = {Dyer,Christopher and Muresan,Smaranda and Resnik, Philip} }