The automatic translation of discourse structures

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Marcu;Lynn Carlson;Maki Watanabe

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;Ft. Meade, MD;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We empirically show that there are significant differences between the discourse structure of Japanese texts and the discourse structure of their corresponding English translations. To improve translation quality, we propose a computational model for rewriting discourse structures. When we train our model on a parallel corpus of manually built Japanese and English discourse structure trees, we learn to rewrite Japanese trees as trees that are closer to the natural English rendering than the original ones.