[PDF] Top 20 Divide and Translate: Improving Long Distance Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation

... models reordering in noisy channel transla- tion, and has been studied from the early period of SMT ...research. Distance-based reordering is a typical approach used in many previous studies re- ... See full document

... In statistical machine translation, reordering model is concerned with predicting correct orders of tar- get language sentence given a source language one and translation ...which ... See full document

... phrasal translation of verb and subject constructions as ob- served in the training ...their distance-based reordering models are not well suited to handling complex reorder- ing operations which can ... See full document

... phrase-based statistical machine translation (PSMT) to translate between language pairs which require long-range re- ordering has attracted a great deal of interest in re- cent ... See full document

... 2 Head-restructured CFG parse tree In order to reorder SVO (subject-verb-object) or- der into SOV (subject-object-verb) order, correctly reordering long-distance words those play impor- tant roles in ... See full document

... syntax-based reordering also helps lo- cal reordering. Consider the translation example of test (a) shown in table ...model translate in the same way up to the word “dd” (which is incorrectly ... See full document

... Some translation examples of the Verbmobil task are shown in ...to translate this verb-group correctly, because the dis- tance between the two parts is too large (more than four ...necessary ... See full document

... global reordering model that explicitly models long distance re- ordering 1 ...of reordering patterns, namely MA (monotone adjacent), MG (monotone gap), RA (reverse adjacent), and RG (reverse ... See full document

... (NP) translation subsystem to obtain significant improvements in German-English ...to translate clauses (all clauses identified by a syn- tactic parser) as a unit to improve long-distance ... See full document

... In the phrase-based approach, sentences are first segmented into variable length segments or phrases, then reordered. Word reorderings can be divided in two tighly intertwined parts: local reorderings that take place ... See full document

... Many SMT systems, including our own, still use this distance-based penalty as a feature. However, starting with (Tillmann and Zhang, 2005; Koehn et al., 2005), a more sophisticated type of reorder- ing model has ... See full document

... word reordering between language pairs with substantial word order difference, such as Japanese with Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) structure and English with Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) struc- ture, is generally viewed ... See full document

... JE translation, we transform a Japanese dependency tree into a constituency tree using a simple heuristic because there is no publicly avail- able constituency ...the translation model training, we use the ... See full document

... the distance of word movement, some phrase-level reordering models in- dicate how to move phrases, also called ...phrase reordering by a shift reduce ... See full document

... for long sentences. Addition- ally, we only keep a single best reordering (in- stead of a lattice with possible reorderings) which makes the decoding significantly more ... See full document

... 2.4.3 Data-Driven Pre-ordering. This kind of model is learned from sets of pairs (f, f 0 ) where f is a source sentence and f 0 is its reference permutation (pre-ordering) inferred from a reference translation e ... See full document

... Syntax-based reordering as a preprocessing step has been applied to many language pairs other than ...Chinese-to-English translation. Both suggest that reordering as a preprocessing step results in ... See full document

... In this paper, we are interested in investigat- ing the value of Chinese sentence types in reor- dering for Chinese-to-English spoken language translation. Due to the syntactic difference be- tween Chinese and ... See full document

... multiple translation units, our AG models are able to capture high or- der contextual information that is previously ...syntax-based translation system, in a large scale Chinese-to-English ... See full document

... Document Retrieval: document/s, retrieval, query/ies, term, relevant/ance, collection, indexing, search SRL/Framenet: argument/s, role/s, predicate, frame, FrameNet, predicates, labeling, PropBank Wordnet/Multilingual ... See full document