Reducing boundary friction using translation-fragment overlap
Ralf D. Brown, Rebecca Hutchinson, Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter Jansen
Abstract
Many corpus-based Machine Translation (MT) systems generate a number of partial translations which are then pieced together rather than immediately producing one overall translation. While this makes them more robust to ill-formed input, they are subject to disfluencies at phrasal translation boundaries even for well-formed input. We address this “boundary friction” problem by introducing a method that exploits overlapping phrasal translations and the increased confidence in translation accuracy they imply. We specify an efficient algorithm for producing translations using overlap. Finally, our empirical analysis indicates that this approach produces higher quality translations than the standard method of combining non-overlapping fragments generated by our Example-Based MT (EBMT) system in a peak-to-peak comparison.- Anthology ID:
- 2003.mtsummit-papers.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: Papers
- Month:
- September 23-27
- Year:
- 2003
- Address:
- New Orleans, USA
- Venue:
- MTSummit
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- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-papers.4
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- Cite (ACL):
- Ralf D. Brown, Rebecca Hutchinson, Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Peter Jansen. 2003. Reducing boundary friction using translation-fragment overlap. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: Papers, New Orleans, USA.
- Cite (Informal):
- Reducing boundary friction using translation-fragment overlap (Brown et al., MTSummit 2003)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2003.mtsummit-papers.4.pdf