@inproceedings{cui2010a, author = {Cui, Lei and Zhang, Dongdong and Li, Mu and Zhou, Ming and Zhao, Tiejun}, title = {A Joint Rule Selection Model for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation}, booktitle = {ACL 2010}, year = {2010}, month = {July}, abstract = {In hierarchical phrase-based SMT systems, statistical models are integrated to guide the hierarchical rule selection for better translation performance. Previous work mainly focused on the selection of either the source side of a hierarchical rule or the target side of a hierarchical rule rather than considering both of them simultaneously. This paper presents a joint model to predict the selection of hierarchical rules. The proposed model is estimated based on four sub-models where the rich context knowledge from both source and target sides is leveraged. Our method can be easily incorporated into the practical SMT systems with the log-linear model framework. The experimental results show that our method can yield significant improvements in performance.}, publisher = {ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/a-joint-rule-selection-model-for-hierarchical-phrase-based-translation/}, }