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Lattice score based data cleaning for phrase-based statistical machine translation

Jiang, Jie, Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Carson-Berndsen, Julie (2010) Lattice score based data cleaning for phrase-based statistical machine translation. In: EAMT 2010 - 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 27-28 May 2010, Saint-Raphaël, France.

Abstract
Statistical machine translation relies heavily on parallel corpora to train its models for translation tasks. While more and more bilingual corpora are readily available, the quality of the sentence pairs should be taken into consideration. This paper presents a novel lattice score-based data cleaning method to select proper sentence pairs from the ones extracted from a bilingual corpus by the sentence alignment methods. The proposed method is carried out as follows: firstly, an initial phrasebased model is trained on the full sentencealigned corpus; then for each of the sentence pairs in the corpus, word alignments are used to create anchor pairs and sourceside lattices; thirdly, based on the translation model, target-side phrase networks are expanded on the lattices and Viterbi searching is used to find approximated decoding results; finally, BLEU score thresholds are used to filter out the low-score sentence pairs for the data cleaning purpose. Our experiments on the FBIS corpus showed improvements of BLEU score from 23.78 to 24.02 in Chinese-English.
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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 > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
Published in: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the EAMT. . European Association for Machine Translation.
Publisher:European Association for Machine Translation
Official URL:http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2010-TOC.htm
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:15789
Deposited On:09 Nov 2010 16:59 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 09 Nov 2018 15:33
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