Improving Translation Quality by Manipulating Sentence Length

Authors:
Laurie Gerber;Eduard H. Hovy
Affiliations:
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Venue:
AMTA '98 Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas on Machine Translation and the Information Soup
Year:
1998

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Abstract

Translation systems tend to have more trouble with long sentences than with short ones for a variety of reasons. When the source and target languages differ rather markedly, as do Japanese and English, this problem is reflected in lower quality output. To improve readability, we experimented with automatically splitting long sentences into shorter ones. This paper outlines the problem, describes the sentence splitting procedure and rules, and provides an evaluation of the results.