Vogal et al, COLING 1996
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Vogel, S., Ney, H., & Tillmann, C. (1996). Hmm-based word alignment in statistical translation. In Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2, COLING ’96, pp. 836–841, Stroudsburg, PA, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Summary
Word Alignments map the word correspondence between two parallel sentences in different languages.
This work extends IBM models 1 and 2, which models lexical translation probabilities and absolute distortion probabilities, by also modeling relative distortion.
The relative distortion is modeled by applying a first-order HMM, where each alignment probabilities are dependent on the distortion of the previous alignment.
