TY - RPRT T1 - Generalizing Word Lattice Translation Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dyer,Christopher A1 - Muresan,Smaranda A1 - Resnik, Philip KW - *MACHINE TRANSLATION KW - *STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION KW - *WORD LATTICE TRANSLATION KW - grammars KW - HIERARCHICAL PHRASE-BASED MODELS KW - linguistics KW - MODELS KW - STATISTICAL PROCESSES AB - 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. PB - Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park UR - http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA481994 ER -