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Machine Translation/Statistics

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Statistical machine translation

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Language models

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Language models are used in MT for a) scoring arbitrary sequences of words (tokens) and b) given a sequence of tokens, they predict what token will likely to follow the sequence. Formally, language models are probability distributions over sequences of tokens in a given language.

N-gram models

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Character-based models

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Recently, it was shown that it is possible to use sub-words, characters or even bytes as basic units for language modelling[citation needed]. There are a few events focused particularly on such models and in general, processing language data on sub-word units, e.g. SCLem 2017.

Translation models

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IBM models 1-5

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Phrase-based models

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Factored translation models

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Syntax- and tree-based models

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Synchronous phrase grammar

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Parallel tree-banks

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Syntactic rules extraction

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Decoding

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Hybrid systems

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Computer-aided translation

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Translation memory

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