An english-hindi statistical machine translation system

  • Authors:
  • Raghavendra Udupa U.;Tanveer A. Faruquie

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India;IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India

  • Venue:
  • IJCNLP'04 Proceedings of the First international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Recently statistical methods for natural language translation have become popular and found reasonable success. In this paper we describe an English-Hindi statistical machine translation system. Our machine translation system is based on IBM Models 1, 2, and 3. We present experimental results on an English-Hindi parallel corpus consisting of 150,000 sentence pairs. We propose two new algorithms for the transfer of fertility parameters from Model 2 to Model 3. Our algorithms have a worst case time complexity of O(m3) improving on the exponential time algorithm proposed in the classical paper on IBM Models. When the maximum fertility of a word is small, our algorithms are O(m2) and hence very efficient in practice.