Text prediction with fuzzy alignment

George Foster, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme


Abstract
Text prediction is a form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. In recent work it has been shown that simple statistical translation models can be applied within a usermodeling framework to improve translator productivity by over 10% in simulated results. For the sake of efficiency in making real-time predictions, these models ignore the alignment relation between source and target texts. In this paper we introduce a new model that captures fuzzy alignments in a very simple way, and show that it gives modest improvements in predictive performance without significantly increasing the time required to generate predictions.
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2002.amta-papers.5
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Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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October 8-12
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2002
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Tiburon, USA
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Stephen D. Richardson
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AMTA
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Springer
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44–53
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45820-4_5
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George Foster, Philippe Langlais, and Guy Lapalme. 2002. Text prediction with fuzzy alignment. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 44–53, Tiburon, USA. Springer.
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Text prediction with fuzzy alignment (Foster et al., AMTA 2002)
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