Word Sense-Aware Machine Translation: Including Senses as Contextual Features for Improved Translation Models

Steven Neale, Luís Gomes, Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, António Branco


Abstract
Although it is commonly assumed that word sense disambiguation (WSD) should help to improve lexical choice and improve the quality of machine translation systems, how to successfully integrate word senses into such systems remains an unanswered question. Some successful approaches have involved reformulating either WSD or the word senses it produces, but work on using traditional word senses to improve machine translation have met with limited success. In this paper, we build upon previous work that experimented on including word senses as contextual features in maxent-based translation models. Training on a large, open-domain corpus (Europarl), we demonstrate that this aproach yields significant improvements in machine translation from English to Portuguese.
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L16-1441
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2777–2783
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Steven Neale, Luís Gomes, Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, and António Branco. 2016. Word Sense-Aware Machine Translation: Including Senses as Contextual Features for Improved Translation Models. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2777–2783, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Word Sense-Aware Machine Translation: Including Senses as Contextual Features for Improved Translation Models (Neale et al., LREC 2016)
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