A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
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Disambiguating "DE" for Chinese-English machine translation
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StatMT '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Improved Chinese--English SMT with Chinese “DE” Construction Classification and Reordering
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
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Syntactic reordering on the source-side is an effective way of handling word order differences. The (DE) construction is a flexible and ubiquitous syntactic structure in Chinese which is a major source of error in translation quality. In this paper, we propose a new classifier model --- discriminative latent variable model (DPLVM) --- to classify the DE construction to improve the accuracy of the classification and hence the translation quality. We also propose a new feature which can automatically learn the reordering rules to a certain extent. The experimental results show that the MT systems using the data reordered by our proposed model outperform the baseline systems by 6.42% and 3.08% relative points in terms of the BLEU score on PB-SMT and hierarchical phrase-based MT respectively. In addition, we analyse the impact of DE annotation on word alignment and on the SMT phrase table.