Syntactic reordering for English-Arabic phrase-based machine translation

  • Authors:
  • Jakob Elming;Nizar Habash

  • Affiliations:
  • Languagelens, Copenhagen, Denmark;Columbia University, New York

  • Venue:
  • Semitic '09 Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate syntactic reordering within an English to Arabic translation task. We extend a pre-translation syntactic reordering approach developed on a close language pair (English-Danish) to the distant language pair, English-Arabic. We achieve significant improvements in translation quality over related approaches, measured by manual as well as automatic evaluations. These results prove the viability of this approach for distant languages.