Experiments with word alignment, normalization and clause reordering for SMT between English and German

Authors:
Maria Holmqvist;Sara Stymne;Lars Ahrenberg
Affiliations:
Linköping University, Sweden;Linköping University, Sweden;Linköping University, Sweden
Venue:
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper presents the LIU system for the WMT 2011 shared task for translation between German and English. For English--German we attempted to improve the translation tables with a combination of standard statistical word alignments and phrase-based word alignments. For German--English translation we tried to make the German text more similar to the English text by normalizing German morphology and performing rule-based clause reordering of the German text. This resulted in small improvements for both translation directions.