Darren Scott Appling
Also published as: Darren Scott Appling
2008
Improving statistical machine translation by paraphrasing the training data.
Francis Bond | Eric Nichols | Darren Scott Appling | Michael Paul
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers
Francis Bond | Eric Nichols | Darren Scott Appling | Michael Paul
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers
Large amounts of training data are essential for training statistical machine translations systems. In this paper we show how training data can be expanded by paraphrasing one side. The new data is made by parsing then generating using a precise HPSG based grammar, which gives sentences with the same meaning, but minor variations in lexical choice and word order. In experiments with Japanese and English, we showed consistent gains on the Tanaka Corpus with less consistent improvement on the IWSLT 2005 evaluation data.