Title :
Overlapping phrase-level translation rules in an SMT engine
Author :
Tribble, Alicia ; Vogel, Stephan ; Waibel, Alex
Author_Institution :
Interactive Syst. Lab., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
We explore a technique for adding longer phrase translation pairs to a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. Merging existing phrase-level alignments that have overlapping words on both the source and target sides generates new phrases. The effect on translation quality is reported for an Arabic-English system in the news domain.
Keywords :
language translation; natural languages; statistical analysis; Arabic-English system; natural language; news domain; phrase level translation rule overlapping; statistical machine translation engine; Engines; Interactive systems; Laboratories; Lapping; Merging; Probability; Stochastic systems; Surface-mount technology; Training data; Transducers;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7902-0
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1275971
