Integration of POStag-based Source Reordering into SMT Decoding by an Extended Search Graph

Josep M. Crego, José B. Mariño


Abstract
This paper presents a reordering framework for statistical machine translation (SMT) where source-side reorderings are integrated into SMT decoding, allowing for a highly constrained reordered search graph. The monotone search is extended by means of a set of reordering patterns (linguistically motivated rewrite patterns). Patterns are automatically learnt in training from word-to-word alignments and source-side Part-Of-Speech (POS) tags. Traversing the extended search graph, the decoder evaluates every hypothesis making use of a group of widely used SMT models and helped by an additional Ngram language model of source-side POS tags. Experiments are reported on the Euparl task (Spanish-to-English and English-to- Spanish). Results are presented regarding translation accuracy (using human and automatic evaluations) and computational efficiency, showing significant improvements in translation quality for both translation directions at a very low computational cost.
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Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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August 8-12
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2006
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Josep M. Crego and José B. Mariño. 2006. Integration of POStag-based Source Reordering into SMT Decoding by an Extended Search Graph. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 29–36, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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