Mellebeek, Bart, Owczarzak, Karolina, van Genabith, Josef and Way, Andy ORCID: 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) |
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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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