Colin Cherry

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2005–2017

Colin Cherry wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2005–2017, most of them on Machine translation, Part-of-speech tagging; often with Alan Ritter, Arul Menezes, Bill Dolan.

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Papers

A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation (2017)
The paper proposes challenge sets: small, hand-written sets of English to French sentences, each built to test one structural divergence between the two languages, for example morphology that exposes agreement, stranded prepositions, double-object verbs, subcategorisation frames, idioms and WH-movement.
Paraphrasing for Style (2012)
The paper asks whether a paraphrase system can be steered toward a writing style. Its testbed is Shakespeare's plays paired with their modern prose translations, aligned into roughly 21,000 sentence pairs from one source and about 10,000 from another. A phrase-based statistical MT system is trained in the…
A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction (2009)
The authors predict lemmas and part-of-speech tags together, because the two depend on each other. Their model combines a tag-set model and a lemmatization model, and adds joint features over a dependency structure of the words, so the decision for one word can use its neighbours. It uses only morphological lexicons…
Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT (2005)
The system takes a source sentence, parses it into a dependency tree, and projects that tree onto the target sentence through the word alignment.