Junfei Guo


2014

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A tunable language model for statistical machine translation
Junfei Guo | Juan Liu | Qi Han | Andreas Maletti
Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track

A novel variation of modified KNESER-NEY model using monomial discounting is presented and integrated into the MOSES statistical machine translation toolkit. The language model is trained on a large training set as usual, but its new discount parameters are tuned to the small development set. An in-domain and cross-domain evaluation of the language model is performed based on perplexity, in which sizable improvements are obtained. Additionally, the performance of the language model is also evaluated in several major machine translation tasks including Chinese-to-English. In those tests, the test data is from a (slightly) different domain than the training data. The experimental results indicate that the new model significantly outperforms a baseline model using SRILM in those domain adaptation scenarios. The new language model is thus ideally suited for domain adaptation without sacrificing performance on in-domain experiments.

2013

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CodeX: Combining an SVM Classifier and Character N-gram Language Models for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Text
Qi Han | Junfei Guo | Hinrich Schuetze
Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013)