Source-Side Left-to-Right or Target-Side Left-to-Right? An Empirical Comparison of Two Phrase-Based Decoding Algorithms

Yin-Wen Chang, Michael Collins


Abstract
This paper describes an empirical study of the phrase-based decoding algorithm proposed by Chang and Collins (2017). The algorithm produces a translation by processing the source-language sentence in strictly left-to-right order, differing from commonly used approaches that build the target-language sentence in left-to-right order. Our results show that the new algorithm is competitive with Moses (Koehn et al., 2007) in terms of both speed and BLEU scores.
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D17-1157
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1495–1499
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1157
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1157
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Yin-Wen Chang and Michael Collins. 2017. Source-Side Left-to-Right or Target-Side Left-to-Right? An Empirical Comparison of Two Phrase-Based Decoding Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1495–1499, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Source-Side Left-to-Right or Target-Side Left-to-Right? An Empirical Comparison of Two Phrase-Based Decoding Algorithms (Chang & Collins, EMNLP 2017)
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