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Taro Watanabe

~~taro at cslab dot kecl dot ntt dot co dot jp~~
Starting from Jan. 1, 2009, I'm no longer affilliated with CS Labs, NTT. You can contact me via my gmail account at taro.wtnb. I would like to thank all my past colleagues for interesting discussion on Statistical Machine Translation.

CV

Research Intrests

Statistical Machine Translation
Machine Learning

Recent Activities

Many reviews...

Publications

2008

Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2008.
NTT SMT System 2008 at NTCIR-7
In NTCIR-7. (paper)
Katsuhito Sudoh, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2008.
NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008
In IWSLT 2008. (paper slide)

2007

Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2007.
Larger Feature Set Approach for Machine Translation in IWSLT 2007
In IWSLT 2007. (paper slide)
Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2007.
Online Large-Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation
In EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 pp. 764-773. (paper slide)

2006

Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2006.
NTT Statistical Machine Translation for IWSLT 2006
In Proceedings of IWSLT 2006 pp. 95-102. (pdf slide)
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2006.
Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
In Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006 pp.777-784. (pdf)
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki. 2006.
NTT System Description for the WMT2006 Shared Task
In Proceedings of NAACL 2006 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation pp.122-125. (pdf)

2005

Hajime Tsukada, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hideto Kazawa, Hideki Isozaki. 2005.
The NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT2005
In Proceedings of IWSLT 2005 . (pdf ppt)
Young-Sook Hwang, Taro Watanabe and Yutaka Sasaki. 2005.
mpirical Study of Utilizing Morph-Syntactic Information in SMT
In Proc. of IJCNLP-05 pp.474-485.

2004

Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Mitsuo Shimohata and Taro Watanabe. 2004.
EBMT, SMT, Hybrid and More: ATR Spoken Language Translation System
In Proceedings of IWSLT 2004 pp.13-20.
Andrew Finch, Taro Watanabe, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita. 2004.
Paraphrasing as Machine Translation
In Journal of Natural Language Processing Vol.11, No.5, pp.87-111.
Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Frank Soong, Taro Watnabe and Wai Kit Lo. 2004.
A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating Features of Speech recognition and Machine Translation
In COLING 2004 pp.1168--1174.
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita. 2004.
Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In COLING 2004 pp.205-211.
Kenji IMAMURA, Hideo OKUMA, Taro WATANABE, Eiichiro SUMITA. 2004.
Example-based Machine Translation Based on Syntactic Transfer with Statistical Models
In COLING 2004, Vol.I, pp.99-105.
Taro Watanabe. 2004.
Statistical Machine Translation Tutorial
In Conference on Natural Language Processing (in Japanese) (pdf)
Taro Watanabe. 2004.
Example-based Statistical Machine Translation
Ph.D. thesis, Kyoto University. (pdf)
Taro WATANABE, Kenji IMAMURA, Eiichiro SUMITA, Hiroshi G. OKUNO. 2004.
Statistical Machine Translation Using Hierarchical Phrase Alignment
In THE IEICE TRANSACTION ON INFROMATION AND SYSTEMS, PT.2(JAPANESE EDITION) , Vol.J87-D-II, No.4, pp.978-986

2003

Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita and Hiroshi G. Okuno. 2003.
Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Transaltion Considering Generation Directions
In Information Processing Society of Japan pp. 3202 - 3210 (Vol. 44, No. 12)
Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita. 2003.
Example-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
In Machine Translation Summit IX
pp. 410-417 New Orleans, Louisiana
(paper in pdf, slide in pdf)
Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita. 2003.
Statistical Machine Translation by Example-based Decoder
In Forum on Information Technology (FIT2003)
Japan
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita and Hiroshi G. Okuno. 2003.
Chunk-based Statistical Translation
In 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003)
pp. 303-310 Sapporo, Japan
(paper in pdf, slide in pdf)
Eiichiro SUMITA, Yasuhiro AKIBA, Takao DOI, Andrew FINCH, Kenji IMAMURA, Michael PAUL, Mitsuo SHIMOHATA and Taro WATANABE. 2003.
A Corpus-Centered Approach to Spoken Language Translation
EACL-2003
pp.171-174

2002

Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita. 2002.
Statistical Machine Translation Decoder Based on Phrase
In 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002) pp. 1889-1892 Denver, Colorado, USA, September
(paper in pdf)
Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita. 2002.
Bidirectional Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
In 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) pp. 1079-1085 Taipei, Taiwan, August
(paper in pdf)
Yasuhiro Akiba, Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita. 2002.
Using Langauge and Translation Models to Select the Best among Outputs from Multiple MT Systems
In 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) Taipei, Taiwan, August
Hideharu Nakajima, Hirofumi Yamamoto and Taro Watanabe. 2002.
Language Model Adaptation with Additional Text Generated by Machine Translation
In 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) Taipei, Taiwan, August
Andrew FINCH, Taro WATANABE and Eiichiro SUMITA. 2002.
Paraphrasing by Statistical Machine Translation
In Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2002)
(Vol..2) pp.187-188.
Japan
Taro Watanabe, Mitsuo Shimohata and Eiichiro Sumita. 2002.
Statistical Machine Translation on Paraphrased Corpora
In Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), pp. 1954-1957 Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May
(paper in pdf)
Hideharu Nakajima, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Taro Watanabe. 2002.
Language Model Adaptation with Additional Texts Generated by Machine Translation
In the 8th Annual Meeting of NLP
pp.283-286
Japan
Taro Watanabe, Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita. 2002.
Statistical Machine Translation Based on Hierarchical Phrase Alignment
In 9th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2002) , pp. 188-198 Keihanna, Japan, March
(paper in pdf, slide in pdf)