Incremental decoding for phrase-based statistical machine translation

Authors:
Baskaran Sankaran;Ajeet Grewal;Anoop Sarkar
Affiliations:
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada
Venue:
WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we focus on the incremental decoding for a statistical phrase-based machine translation system. In incremental decoding, translations are generated incrementally for every word typed by a user, instead of waiting for the entire sentence as input. We introduce a novel modification to the beam-search decoding algorithm for phrase-based MT to address this issue, aimed at efficient computation of future costs and avoiding search errors. Our objective is to do a faster translation during incremental decoding without significant reduction in the translation quality.