Maximum entropy based rule selection model for syntax-based statistical machine translation

  • Authors:
  • Qun Liu;Zhongjun He;Yang Liu;Shouxun Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel maximum entropy based rule selection (MERS) model for syntax-based statistical machine translation (SMT). The MERS model combines local contextual information around rules and information of sub-trees covered by variables in rules. Therefore, our model allows the decoder to perform context-dependent rule selection during decoding. We incorporate the MERS model into a state-of-the-art linguistically syntax-based SMT model, the tree-to-string alignment template model. Experiments show that our approach achieves significant improvements over the baseline system.