An empirical study of translation rule extraction with multiple parsers

  • Authors:
  • Tong Xiao;Jingbo Zhu;Hao Zhang;Muhua Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Northeastern University and Ministry of Education;Northeastern University and Ministry of Education;Northeastern University;Northeastern University and Ministry of Education

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Translation rule extraction is an important issue in syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Recent studies show that rule coverage is one of the key factors affecting the success of syntax-based systems. In this paper, we first present a simple and effective method to improve rule coverage by using multiple parsers in translation rule extraction, and then empirically investigate the effectiveness of our method on Chinese-English translation tasks. Experimental results show that extracting translation rules using multiple parsers improves a string-to-tree system by over 0.9 BLEU points on both NIST 2004 and 2005 test corpora.