A joint rule selection model for hierarchical phrase-based translation

  • Authors:
  • Lei Cui;Dongdong Zhang;Mu Li;Ming Zhou;Tiejun Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In hierarchical phrase-based SMT systems, statistical models are integrated to guide the hierarchical rule selection for better translation performance. Previous work mainly focused on the selection of either the source side of a hierarchical rule or the target side of a hierarchical rule rather than considering both of them simultaneously. This paper presents a joint model to predict the selection of hierarchical rules. The proposed model is estimated based on four sub-models where the rich context knowledge from both source and target sides is leveraged. Our method can be easily incorporated into the practical SMT systems with the log-linear model framework. The experimental results show that our method can yield significant improvements in performance.