@article{bisazza-federico-2013-dynamically,
    title = "Dynamically Shaping the Reordering Search Space of Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation",
    author = "Bisazza, Arianna  and
      Federico, Marcello",
    editor = "Lin, Dekang  and
      Collins, Michael",
    journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "1",
    year = "2013",
    address = "Cambridge, MA",
    publisher = "MIT Press",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/Q13-1027/",
    doi = "10.1162/tacl_a_00231",
    pages = "327--340",
    abstract = "Defining the reordering search space is a crucial issue in phrase-based SMT between distant languages. In fact, the optimal trade-off between accuracy and complexity of decoding is nowadays reached by harshly limiting the input permutation space. We propose a method to dynamically shape such space and, thus, capture long-range word movements without hurting translation quality nor decoding time. The space defined by loose reordering constraints is dynamically pruned through a binary classifier that predicts whether a given input word should be translated right after another. The integration of this model into a phrase-based decoder improves a strong Arabic-English baseline already including state-of-the-art early distortion cost (Moore and Quirk, 2007) and hierarchical phrase orientation models (Galley and Manning, 2008). Significant improvements in the reordering of verbs are achieved by a system that is notably faster than the baseline, while bleu and meteor remain stable, or even increase, at a very high distortion limit."
}