Capitalizing machine translation

  • Authors:
  • Wei Wang;Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

  • Affiliations:
  • Language Weaver, Inc., Marina del Rey, CA;Language Weaver, Inc., Marina del Rey, CA;Language Weaver, Inc., Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic bilingual capitalization model for capitalizing machine translation outputs using conditional random fields. Experiments carried out on three language pairs and a variety of experiment conditions show that our model significantly outperforms a strong monolingual capitalization model baseline, especially when working with small datasets and/or European language pairs.