Magnus Merkel


2013

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IPhraxtor: A Linguistically Informed System for Extraction of Term Candidates
Magnus Merkel | Jody Foo | Lars Ahrenberg
Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2013)

2012

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Alignment-based reordering for SMT
Maria Holmqvist | Sara Stymne | Lars Ahrenberg | Magnus Merkel
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

We present a method for improving word alignment quality for phrase-based statistical machine translation by reordering the source text according to the target word order suggested by an initial word alignment. The reordered text is used to create a second word alignment which can be an improvement of the first alignment, since the word order is more similar. The method requires no other pre-processing such as part-of-speech tagging or parsing. We report improved Bleu scores for English-to-German and English-to-Swedish translation. We also examined the effect on word alignment quality and found that the reordering method increased recall while lowering precision, which partly can explain the improved Bleu scores. A manual evaluation of the translation output was also performed to understand what effect our reordering method has on the translation system. We found that where the system employing reordering differed from the baseline in terms of having more words, or a different word order, this generally led to an improvement in translation quality.

2010

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Computing Word Senses by Semantic Mirroring and Spectral Graph Partitioning
Martin Fagerlund | Magnus Merkel | Lars Eldén | Lars Ahrenberg
Proceedings of TextGraphs-5 - 2010 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

2007

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Terminology Extraction and Term Ranking for Standardizing Term Banks
Magnus Merkel | Jody Foo
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2007)

2004

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A Pattern Extraction Workbench Combining Multiple Linguistic Levels
Magnus Merkel | Andreas Lange
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

In this paper an interactive pattern extraction workbench, I*Pex, is presented. The workbench comes in a graphical environment and is designed to be used in an incremental and interactive fashion with the user. Patterns can be constructed to work in combination involving specifications on several linguistic levels simultaneously, from the character level using regular expressions, parts of speech and dependency relations to semantic roles. The input text format is based on XCES XML format.

2003

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Interactive Word Alignment for Language Engineering
Lars Ahrenberg | Magnus Merkel | Michael Petterstedt
10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2002

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A System for Incremental and Interactive Word Linking
Lars Ahrenberg | Mikael Andersson | Magnus Merkel
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

2001

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Comparing source and target texts in a translation corpus
Magnus Merkel
Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2001)

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Towards multimodal public information systems
Magnus Merkel | Arne Jönsson
Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2001)

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Combination of Contextual Features for Word Sense Disambiguation: LIU-WSD
Magnus Merkel | Mikael Andersson
Proceedings of SENSEVAL-2 Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

2000

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Evaluation of Word Alignment Systems
Lars Ahrenberg | Magnus Merkel | Anna Sågvall Hein | Jörg Tiedemann
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

1998

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A Simple Hybrid Aligner for Generating Lexical Correspondences in Parallel Texts
Lars Ahrenberg | Mikael Andersson | Magnus Merkel
COLING 1998 Volume 1: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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A Simple Hybrid Aligner for Generating Lexical Correspondences in Parallel Texts
Lars Ahrenberg | Mikael Andersson | Magnus Merkel
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

1996

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Checking translations for inconsistency - a tool for the editor
Magnus Merkel
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

1994

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A Phrase-Retrieval System based on Recurrence
Magnus Merkel | Bertn Nilsson | Lars Ahrenberg
Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora

The paper describes a simple but useful phrase-retrieval system that primarily is intended as a support tool for computer-aided translation. Given no other input than a text (and a word list used for filtering purposes), the system retrieves recurrent sentences and phrases of the text and their positions. In addition the system provides information on internal and external recurrence rates.

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Semiotics at Work: Technical Communication and Translation in a Multilingual Corporate Environment
Arne Larson | Magnus Merkel
Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 1993)

1988

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A Novel Analysis of Temporal Frame-Adverbials
Magnus Merkel
Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational Linguistics