Iftekhar Naim


2018

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Feature-Based Decipherment for Machine Translation
Iftekhar Naim | Parker Riley | Daniel Gildea
Computational Linguistics, Volume 44, Issue 3 - September 2018

Orthographic similarities across languages provide a strong signal for unsupervised probabilistic transduction (decipherment) for closely related language pairs. The existing decipherment models, however, are not well suited for exploiting these orthographic similarities. We propose a log-linear model with latent variables that incorporates orthographic similarity features. Maximum likelihood training is computationally expensive for the proposed log-linear model. To address this challenge, we perform approximate inference via Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and contrastive divergence. Our results show that the proposed log-linear model with contrastive divergence outperforms the existing generative decipherment models by exploiting the orthographic features. The model both scales to large vocabularies and preserves accuracy in low- and no-resource contexts.

2015

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Discriminative Unsupervised Alignment of Natural Language Instructions with Corresponding Video Segments
Iftekhar Naim | Young C. Song | Qiguang Liu | Liang Huang | Henry Kautz | Jiebo Luo | Daniel Gildea
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2014

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Sliding Alignment Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
Mohammad Kazemi | Rahman Lavaee | Iftekhar Naim | Daniel Gildea
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2013

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Text Alignment for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
Iftekhar Naim | Daniel Gildea | Walter Lasecki | Jeffrey P. Bigham
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies