Text Prediction with Fuzzy Alignments

  • Authors:
  • George Foster;Philippe Langlais;Guy Lapalme

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AMTA '02 Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas on Machine Translation: From Research to Real Users
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Text prediction is a form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. In recent work it has been shown that simple statistical translation models can be applied within a user-modeling framework to improve translator productivity by over 10% in simulated results. For the sake of efficiency in making real-time predictions, these models ignore the alignment relation between source and target texts. In this paper we introduce a new model that captures fuzzy alignments in a very simple way, and show that it gives modest improvements in predictive performance without significantly increasing the time required to generate predictions.