Word-Order Issues in English-to-Urdu Statistical Machine Translation
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F11%3A10107812" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/11:10107812 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10108-011-0007-0" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10108-011-0007-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10108-011-0007-0" target="_blank" >10.2478/v10108-011-0007-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Word-Order Issues in English-to-Urdu Statistical Machine Translation
Original language description
We investigate phrase-based statistical machine translation between English and Urdu, two Indo-European languages that differ significantly in their word-order preferences. Reordering of words and phrases is thus a necessary part of the translation process. While local reordering is modeled nicely by phrase-based systems, long-distance reordering is known to be a hard problem. We perform experiments using the Moses SMT system and discuss reordering models available in Moses. We then present our novel, Urdu-aware, yet generalizable approach based on reordering phrases in syntactic parse tree of the source English sentence. Our technique significantly improves quality of English-Urdu translation with Moses, both in terms of BLEU score and of subjective human judgments.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP406%2F11%2F1499" target="_blank" >GAP406/11/1499: Czech in the Machine Translation Era (CZECHMATE)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
ISSN
0032-6585
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Volume of the periodical
Neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
95
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
87-106
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