Title
Joshua: an open source toolkit for parsing-based machine translation
Abstract
We describe Joshua, an open source toolkit for statistical machine translation. Joshua implements all of the algorithms required for synchronous context free grammars (SCFGs): chart-parsing, n-gram language model integration, beam-and cube-pruning, and k-best extraction. The toolkit also implements suffix-array grammar extraction and minimum error rate training. It uses parallel and distributed computing techniques for scalability. We demonstrate that the toolkit achieves state of the art translation performance on the WMT09 French-English translation task.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
WMT@EACL
free grammar,open source toolkit,statistical machine translation,parsing-based machine translation,n-gram language model integration,art translation performance,k-best extraction,wmt09 french-english translation task,minimum error rate training,suffix-array grammar extraction,beam-and cube-pruning
Field
DocType
Citations 
Context-free grammar,Programming language,Computer science,Word error rate,Machine translation,Grammar,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Computer-assisted translation,Parsing,Language model,Scalability
Conference
106
PageRank 
References 
Authors
6.00
21
9
Search Limit
100106
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhifei Li133923.83
Chris Callison-Burch24872259.75
chris dyer35438232.28
Juri Ganitkevitch465932.71
Sanjeev Khudanpur52155202.00
Lane Schwartz620918.01
Wren N. G. Thornton71247.74
Jonathan Weese832519.11
Omar Zaidan978743.28