Translation by machine of complex nominals: getting it right

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Baldwin;Takaaki Tanaka

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • MWE '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present a method for compositionally translating noun-noun (NN) compounds, using a word-level bilingual dictionary and syntactic templates for candidate generation, and corpus and dictionary statistics for selection. We propose a support vector learning-based method employing target language corpus and bilingual dictionary data, and evaluate it over a English ↔ Japanese machine translation task. We show the proposed method to be superior to previous methods and also robust over low-frequency NN compounds.