[PDF] Top 20 Tree to String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation

... Table 2 shows the results on test set using Pharaoh and Lynx with different feature settings. The 95% confidence intervals were computed using Zhang’s significance tester (Zhang et al., 2004). We mod- ified it to conform ... See full document

... high-quality translation, the localisation industry is constantly searching for tech- nologies that would increase translator throughput, with the current focus on the use of high-quality Statistical ... See full document

... contiguous tree sequence pairs 1 , and find them use- less via real syntax-based translation ...word alignment and parse tree ...one tree pair in the training data with its ... See full document

... We applied our approach in a hierarchical phrase- based setting (Hiero). To this end, we trained 3 Hi- ero baseline systems and 3 Hiero systems aug- mented with our rule selection model on the data given in Section 4.1. ... See full document

... In practice, these existing methods are not flex- ible enough to handle parallel sentence pairs, es- pecially those of SVO and SOV languages. There- fore, we permit further flexibility in SCFG aiming to effectively ... See full document

... the translation unit from phrases to tree-to-string align- ment templates (TATs) while we do ...phrasal translation by word-to-phrase tree transfor- ... See full document

... view translation as minimal path cov- ...word alignment, and thus can not handle non-isomorphism between ...treelet string corre- spondence model which directly map a dependency structure to a target ... See full document

... hierarchical string-to-dependency translation model that exploits a dependency LM while decoding (as opposed to during reranking n-best output)to score alternative translations based on their structural ... See full document

... This paper explores whether knowledge about se- mantic affinities between the target predicates and their argument fillers is useful for translating am- biguous predicates and arguments. We propose three variants of a ... See full document

... HMM alignment models, which use context information in the source language to improve estimates of word- to-word translation ...decision tree clustering algorithms to cluster source word contexts ... See full document

... While tree-to-string (T2S) translation the- oretically holds promise for efficient, ac- curate translation, in previous reports T2S systems have often proven inferior to other machine ... See full document

... the statistical alignment models used to obtain a word alignment and techniques for learning phrase translations from word ...word-based statistical translation models in Brown et ... See full document

... improve alignment accuracy (Riesa and Marcu, ...58.32% alignment F-measure, while Nile achieves ...to translation accuracy, we found that for translation that does not use syn- tactic ... See full document

... for tree-to-string models, making use of parse trees for one of the two languages, and tree-to-tree models, which make use of parallel parse ...of alignment error rate indicate that the ... See full document

... The results of the translation experiments using the single-word based approach and the alignment template approach on text input and on speech input are summarized in Table 2.. The resu[r] ... See full document

... of alignment templates, it is not guar- anteed that every sentence pair in a bitext can be seg- mented into phrases for which there exist the consistent alignment templates needed to create an ... See full document

... The best BLEU score on the test set is 25.92, which is from the experiments of Method 2. Method 1 system seems to behave slightly worse than the baseline and Method 2. The reason for this behavior is that the rules that ... See full document

... the alignment of words and phrases in ...word alignment performance is comparable to that of IBM Model-4 even over large training ...phrase-based translation, and in Chinese to English and Arabic to ... See full document

... an alignment model that assumes in- ternal structure for words, and we can legitimately talk about words and their morphemes in line with the linguistic conception of these ...of alignment: the first level ... See full document

... adjoining tree-to-string translation system on Chinese-English ...rule tree is no greater than 3 and the surface string’s length is no greater than ...word alignment, our rule ... See full document