Empircal dependency-based head finalization for statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) machine translation
Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita
Abstract
We conduct dependency-based head finalization for statistical machine translation (SMT) for Myanmar (Burmese). Although Myanmar is an understudied language, linguistically it is a head-final language with similar syntax to Japanese and Korean. So, applying the efficient techniques of Japanese and Korean processing to Myanmar is a natural idea. Our approach is a combination of two approaches. The first is a head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) based head finalization for English-to-Japanese translation, the second is dependency-based pre-ordering originally designed for English-to-Korean translation. We experiment on Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar translation, using a statistical pre-ordering approach as a comparison method. Experimental results show the dependency-based head finalization was able to consistently improve a baseline SMT system, for different source languages and different segmentation schemes for the Myanmar language.- Anthology ID:
- 2014.iwslt-papers.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers
- Month:
- December 4-5
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Lake Tahoe, California
- Editors:
- Marcello Federico, Sebastian Stüker, François Yvon
- Venue:
- IWSLT
- SIG:
- SIGSLT
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- 184–191
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2014.iwslt-papers.5
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2014. Empircal dependency-based head finalization for statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) machine translation. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers, pages 184–191, Lake Tahoe, California.
- Cite (Informal):
- Empircal dependency-based head finalization for statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) machine translation (Ding et al., IWSLT 2014)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2014.iwslt-papers.5.pdf