Learning lexicalized reordering models from reordering graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jinsong Su;Yang Liu;Yajuan Lü;Haitao Mi;Qun Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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

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Abstract

Lexicalized reordering models play a crucial role in phrase-based translation systems. They are usually learned from the word-aligned bilingual corpus by examining the reordering relations of adjacent phrases. Instead of just checking whether there is one phrase adjacent to a given phrase, we argue that it is important to take the number of adjacent phrases into account for better estimations of reordering models. We propose to use a structure named reordering graph, which represents all phrase segmentations of a sentence pair, to learn lexicalized reordering models efficiently. Experimental results on the NIST Chinese-English test sets show that our approach significantly outperforms the baseline method.