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# Dekai Wu — all works

47 works · [← Dekai Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekai-wu/)

1. **[Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carpuat-2007-improving-statistical-machine-translation-word/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu*2007 · 505 citations*
2. [**Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars and Bilingual Parsing of Parallel Corpora**Dekai Wu*Machine translation · 456 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1997-stochastic-inversion-transduction-grammars-bilingual/)
3. **[A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1996-polynomial-time-algorithm-statistical-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dekai Wu*1996 · 223 citations*
4. [**MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility based on semantic roles**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*Machine translation · 135 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lo-2011-meant-inexpensive-high-accuracy-semi/)
5. **[Learning an English-Chinese Lexicon from a Parallel Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1994.amta-1.26/) Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yet**Dekai Wu, Xuanyin Xia*1994 · 131 citations*
6. **[Fully Automatic Semantic MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W12-3129/) Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Anand Karthik Tumuluru, Dekai Wu*2012 · 113 citations*
7. **[Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-3804/) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2009 · 70 citations*
8. **[Inversion Transduction Grammar Constraints for Mining Parallel Sentences from Quasi-Comparable Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I05-1023/) Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Full Papers · no summary yet**Dekai Wu, Pascale Fung*2005 · 67 citations*
9. **[Grammarless Extraction of Phrasal Translation Examples from Parallel Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1995.tmi-1.28/) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages · no summary yet**Wu, Dekai*1995 · 58 citations*
10. **[Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N10-1050/) Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 47 citations*
11. **[Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-2304/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3) at NAACL HLT 2009 · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2009 · 47 citations*
12. **[Book Reviews: Statistically-Driven Computer Grammars of English: The IBM/Lancaster Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1994-book-reviews-statistically-driven-computer/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Dekai Wu*1994 · 47 citations*
13. **[XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P14-2124/) Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo et al.*2014 · 44 citations*
14. **[Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I05-2021/) Companion Volume to the Proceedings of Conference including Posters/Demos and tutorial abstracts · no summary yet**Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu*2005 · 42 citations*
15. **[Improving machine translation by training against an automatic semantic frame based evaluation metric ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P13-2067/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo et al.*2013 · 40 citations*
16. **[Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W12-4206/) Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2012 · 37 citations*
17. **[Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment Using Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W05-1205/) Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment · no summary yet**Wu, Dekai*2005 · 33 citations*
18. **[MEANT at WMT 2013: A Tunable, Accurate yet Inexpensive Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation Metric ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-2254/) Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2013 · 31 citations*
19. **[Can Informal Genres be better Translated by Tuning on Automatic Semantic Metrics? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2013.mtsummit-papers.12/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers · no summary yet**Chi-Kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2013 · 28 citations*
20. **[Empirical lower bounds on translation unit error rate for the full class of inversion transduction grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-3805/) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) · no summary yet**Anders Søgaard, Dekai Wu*2009 · 27 citations*
21. **[Defense Against Prompt Injection Attack by Leveraging Attack Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-defense-against-prompt-injection-attack/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yulin Chen, Haoran Li, Zihao Zheng, et al.*2025 · 24 citations*
22. **[Structured vs. Flat Semantic Role Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W11-1002/) Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2011 · 23 citations*
23. **[LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2012.eamt-1.64/) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · no summary yet**Karteek Addanki et al.*2012 · 19 citations*
24. **[Evaluating Machine Translation Utility via Semantic Role Labels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L10-1521/) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2010 · 18 citations*
25. **[Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1133/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · no summary yet**Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu*2008 · 18 citations*
26. **[Towards a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W12-4204/) Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Ondřej Bojar, Dekai Wu*2012 · 16 citations*
27. **[Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-3056/) Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Philipp Dowling, Dekai Wu*2015 · 14 citations*
28. **[Accuracy and robustness in measuring the lexical similarity of semantic role fillers for automatic semantic MT evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/Y12-1062/) Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation · no summary yet**Anand Karthik Tumuluru, Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2012 · 14 citations*
29. **[Semantic vs. Syntactic vs. N-gram Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-3807/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2010 · 10 citations*
30. **[Coerced Markov Models for Cross-Lingual Lexical-Tag Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1995.tmi-1.18/) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages · no summary yet**Pascale Fung, Dekai Wu*1995 · 10 citations*
31. **[Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I13-1165/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2013 · 6 citations*
32. **[A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-3802/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 6 citations*
33. [**Improving word alignment for low resource languages using English monolingual SRL Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra6)**Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2016 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beloucif-2016-improving-word-alignment-low-resource/)
34. **[On the reliability and inter-annotator agreement of human semantic MT evaluation via HMEANT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1136/) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2014 · 5 citations*
35. **[Transduction Recursive Auto-Associative Memory: Learning Bilingual Compositional Distributed Vector Representations of Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4013/) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Karteek Addanki, Dekai Wu*2014 · 4 citations*
36. **[Better Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation via Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4003/) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Dekai Wu et al.*2014 · 3 citations*
37. **[A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2116/) Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions · no summary yet**Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee*2006 · 2 citations*
38. **[Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length ↗](https://aclanthology.org/R13-1077/) Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2013 · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki, Dekai Wu*2013 · 1 citation*
39. **[Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-1724/) Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 1 citation*
40. **[Driving inversion transduction grammar induction with semantic evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S16-2006/) Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics · no summary yet**Meriem Beloucif, Dekai Wu*2016*
41. **[Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-1207/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2016*
42. **[Improving semantic SMT via soft semantic role label constraints on ITG alignmens ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-papers.26/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: Papers · no summary yet**Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2015*
43. **[Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4010/) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2014*
44. **[Lexical Access Preference and Constraint Strategies for Improving Multiword Expression Association within Semantic MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4719/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex) · no summary yet**Dekai Wu, Chi-kiu Lo, Markus Saers*2014*
45. **[Human semantic MT evaluation with HMEANT for IWSLT 2013 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2013.iwslt-evaluation.2/) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu*2013*
46. **[Unsupervised Learning of Bilingual Categories in Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-5703/) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2013) · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2013*
47. **[Statistical Machine Translation Part II: Tree-Based SMT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I05-2049/) Companion Volume to the Proceedings of Conference including Posters/Demos and tutorial abstracts · no summary yet**Wu, Dekai*2005*