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Publication
EMNLP 2013
Conference paper
A corpus level MIRA tuning strategy for machine translation
Abstract
MIRA based tuning methods have been widely used in statistical machine translation (SMT) system with a large number of features. Since the corpus-level BLEU is not decomposable, these MIRA approaches usually define a variety of heuristic-driven sentence-level BLEUs in their model losses. Instead, we present a new MIRA method, which employs an exact corpus-level BLEU to compute the model loss. Our method is simpler in implementation. Experiments on Chinese-to-English translation show its effectiveness over two state-of-the-art MIRA implementations.