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Multi-engine machine translation by recursive sentence decomposition

Mellebeek, Bart, Owczarzak, Karolina, van Genabith, Josef and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2006) Multi-engine machine translation by recursive sentence decomposition. In: AMTA 2006 - 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas, 8-12 August 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract
In this paper, we present a novel approach to combine the outputs of multiple MT engines into a consensus translation. In contrast to previous Multi-Engine Machine Translation (MEMT) techniques, we do not rely on word alignments of output hypotheses, but prepare the input sentence for multi-engine processing. We do this by using a recursive decomposition algorithm that produces simple chunks as input to the MT engines. A consensus translation is produced by combining the best chunk translations, selected through majority voting, a trigram language model score and a confidence score assigned to each MT engine. We report statistically significant relative improvements of up to 9% BLEU score in experiments (English→Spanish) carried out on an 800-sentence test set extracted from the Penn-II Treebank.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
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
Official URL:http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2006-TOC.htm
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Enterprise Ireland, EI SC/2003/0282
ID Code:15281
Deposited On:11 Mar 2010 11:48 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 16 Nov 2018 11:16
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