Hearne, Mary, Tinsley, John, Zhechev, Ventsislav and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2007) Capturing translational divergences with a statistical tree-to-tree aligner. In: TMI-07 - Proceedings of The 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, 7-9 September 2007, Skövde, Sweden.
Abstract
Parallel treebanks, which comprise paired source-target parse trees aligned at sub-sentential level, could be useful
for many applications, particularly data-driven machine translation. In this paper, we focus on how translational
divergences are captured within a parallel treebank using a fully automatic statistical tree-to-tree aligner. We
observe that while the algorithm performs well at the phrase level, performance on lexical-level alignments
is compromised by an inappropriate bias towards coverage rather than precision. This preference for high precision
rather than broad coverage in terms of expressing translational divergences through tree-alignment stands in
direct opposition to the situation for SMT word-alignment models. We suggest that this has implications not only
for tree-alignment itself but also for the broader area of induction of syntaxaware models for SMT.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | statistical machine translation; |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) |
Official URL: | http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~away/TMI-07/ |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland, SFI 05/RF/CMS064 |
ID Code: | 15223 |
Deposited On: | 18 Feb 2010 11:55 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 14 Nov 2018 16:44 |
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