Towards a simple and accurate statistical approach to learning translation relationships among words

  • Authors:
  • Robert C. Moore

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • DMMT '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Data-driven methods in machine translation - Volume 14
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We report on a project to derive word translation relationships automatically from parallel corpora. Our effort is distinguished by the use of simpler, faster models than those used in previous high-accuracy approaches. Our methods achieve accuracy on single-word translations that seems comparable to any work previously reported, up to nearly 60% coverage of word types, and they perform particularly well on a class of multi-word compounds of special interest to our translation effort.