Synchronous Binarization

Conventional wisdom dictates that syn- chronous context-free grammars (SCFGs) must be converted to Chomsky Normal Form (CNF) to ensure cubic time decoding. For ar- bitrary SCFGs, this is typically accomplished …...

Tree-to-string translation is syntax-aware and efficient but sensitive to parsing errors. Forest- to-string translation approaches mitigate the risk of propagating parser errors into transla- tion errors by considering a forest …...