Hassan, Hany, Sima'an, Khalil and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2009) A syntactified direct translation model with linear-time decoding. In: EMNLP 2009 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 6-7 August 2009, Singapore.
Abstract
Recent syntactic extensions of statistical translation models work with a synchronous context-free or tree-substitution grammar extracted from an automatically parsed parallel corpus. The decoders accompanying these extensions typically exceed quadratic time complexity. This paper extends the Direct Translation Model 2 (DTM2) with syntax while maintaining linear-time decoding. We employ a linear-time parsing algorithm based on an eager, incremental interpretation of Combinatory Categorial Grammar
(CCG). As every input word is processed, the local parsing decisions resolve ambiguity eagerly, by selecting a single
supertag–operator pair for extending the dependency parse incrementally. Alongside translation features extracted from
the derived parse tree, we explore syntactic features extracted from the incremental derivation process. Our empirical experiments show that our model significantly
outperforms the state-of-the art DTM2 system.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | statistical translation models; |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Official URL: | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D09/ |
Copyright Information: | © 2009 ACL and AFNLP |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 15180 |
Deposited On: | 15 Feb 2010 16:33 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 14 Nov 2018 16:31 |
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