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Head Automata for Speech Translation
Hiyan Alshawi
This paper presents statistical language and translation models based on collections of small finite state machines we call ``head automata''. The models are intended to capture th…
Head Automata and Bilingual Tiling: Translation with Minimal Representations
Hiyan Alshawi
We present a language model consisting of a collection of costed bidirectional finite state automata associated with the head words of phrases. The model is suitable for incrementa…
CLARE: A Contextual Reasoning and Cooperative Response Framework for the Core Language Engine
Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Richard Crouch +3
This report describes the research, design and implementation work carried out in building the CLARE system at SRI International, Cambridge, England. CLARE was designed as a natura…
Qualitative and Quantitative Models of Speech Translation
Hiyan Alshawi
This paper compares a qualitative reasoning model of translation with a quantitative statistical model. We consider these models within the context of two hypothetical speech trans…
Training and Scaling Preference Functions for Disambiguation
Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter
We present an automatic method for weighting the contributions of preference functions used in disambiguation. Initial scaling factors are derived as the solution to a least-square…