Sonja Nießen

Also published as: S. Nießen, Sonja Niessen


2004

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Statistical Machine Translation with Scarce Resources Using Morpho-syntactic Information
Sonja Nießen | Hermann Ney
Computational Linguistics, Volume 30, Number 2, June 2004

2001

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Morpho-syntactic analysis for reordering in statistical machine translation
Sonja Niessen | Hermann Ney
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII

In the framework of statistical machine translation (SMT), correspondences between the words in the source and the target language are learned from bilingual corpora on the basis of so-called alignment models. Among other things these are meant to capture the differences in word order in different languages. In this paper we show that SMT can take advantage of the explicit introduction of some linguistic knowledge about the sentence structure in the languages under consideration. In contrast to previous publications dealing with the incorporation of morphological and syntactic information into SMT, we focus on two aspects of reordering for the language pair German and English, namely question inversion and detachable German verb prefixes. The results of systematic experiments are reported and demonstrate the applicability of the approach to both translation directions on a German-English corpus.

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Toward hierarchical models for statistical machine translation of inflected languages
Sonja Niessen | Hermann Ney
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Methods in Machine Translation

2000

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An Evaluation Tool for Machine Translation: Fast Evaluation for MT Research
Sonja Nießen | Franz Josef Och | Gregor Leusch | Hermann Ney
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

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Improving SMT quality with morpho-syntactic analysis
Sonja Nießen | Hermann Ney
COLING 2000 Volume 2: The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1998

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A DP based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation
S. Nießen | S. Vogel | H. Ney | C. Tillmann
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2

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A DP based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation
S. Nießen | S. Vogel | H. Ney | C. Tillmann
COLING 1998 Volume 2: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics