{"title":"A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation","authors":"C. Tillmann","doi":"10.3115/1613984.1614010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1613984.1614010","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a unigram segmentation model for statistical machine translation where the segmentation units are blocks: pairs of phrases without internal structure. The segmentation model uses a novel orientation component to handle swapping of neighbor blocks. During training, we collect block unigram counts with orientation: we count how often a block occurs to the left or to the right of some predecessor block. The orientation model is shown to improve translation performance over two models: 1) no block re-ordering is used, and 2) the block swapping is controlled only by a language model. We show experimental results on a standard Arabic-English translation task.","PeriodicalId":252736,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers on XX - HLT-NAACL '04","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115017626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UI on the Fly: Generating a Multimodal User Interface","authors":"D. Reitter, Erin Panttaja, Fred Cummins","doi":"10.3115/1613984.1613996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1613984.1613996","url":null,"abstract":"UI on the Fly is a system that dynamically presents coordinated multimodal content through natural language and a small-screen graphical user interface. It adapts to the user's preferences and situation. Multimodal Functional Unification Grammar (MUG) is a unification-based formalism that uses rules to generate content that is coordinated across several communication modes. Faithful variants are scored with a heuristic function.","PeriodicalId":252736,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers on XX - HLT-NAACL '04","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133342494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}