- B. Zhao, S. Vogel, Matthias Eck, A. Waibel. 2004. Phrase Pair Rescoring with Term Weighting for Statistical Machine Translation. Abstract: We propose to score phrase translation pairs for statistical machine translation using term weight based models. These models employ tf.idf to encode the weights of content and non-content words in phrase translation pairs. The translation probability is then modeled by similarity functions defined in a vector space. Two similarity functions are compared. Using these models in a statistical machine translation task shows significant improvements.
