Joachim Daiber

Splitting Compounds by Semantic Analogy

2015 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. In this paper, we investigate whether distributional semantics in the form of word embeddings can enable …

Examining the Relationship between Preordering and Word Order Freedom in Machine Translation

2016

We study the relationship between word order freedom and preordering in statistical machine translation. To assess word order freedom, we first introduce a novel entropy measure which quantifies how difficult it is to predict word …