Two-Step MT: Predicting Target Morphology

Franck Burlot, Elena Knyazeva, Thomas Lavergne, François Yvon


Abstract
This paper describes a two-step machine translation system that addresses the issue of translating into a morphologically rich language (English to Czech), by performing separately the translation and the generation of target morphology. The first step consists in translating from English into a normalized version of Czech, where some morphological information has been removed. The second step retrieves this information and re-inflects the normalized output, turning it into fully inflected Czech. We introduce different setups for the second step and evaluate the quality of their predictions over different MT systems trained on different amounts of parallel and monolingual data and report ways to adapt to different data sizes, which improves the translation in low-resource conditions, as well as when large training data is available.
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2016.iwslt-1.7
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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
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December 8-9
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2016
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Seattle, Washington D.C
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
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Franck Burlot, Elena Knyazeva, Thomas Lavergne, and François Yvon. 2016. Two-Step MT: Predicting Target Morphology. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, Seattle, Washington D.C. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation.
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