Wang, Longyue ORCID: 0000-0002-9062-6183, Tu, Zhaopeng, Zhang, Xiaojun ORCID: 0000-0003-3514-1981, Li, Hang, Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Liu, Qun ORCID: 0000-0002-7000-1792 (2016) A Novel approach to dropped pronoun translation. In: 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2016), 12-17 June 2016, San Diego, CA, USA.
Abstract
Dropped Pronouns (DP) in which pronouns
are frequently dropped in the source language
but should be retained in the target language
are challenge in machine translation. In response to this problem, we propose a semisupervised approach to recall possibly missing
pronouns in the translation. Firstly, we build
training data for DP generation in which the
DPs are automatically labelled according to
the alignment information from a parallel corpus. Secondly, we build a deep learning-based
DP generator for input sentences in decoding
when no corresponding references exist. More
specifically, the generation is two-phase: (1)
DP position detection, which is modeled as a
sequential labelling task with recurrent neural
networks; and (2) DP prediction, which employs a multilayer perceptron with rich features. Finally, we integrate the above outputs
into our translation system to recall missing
pronouns by both extracting rules from the
DP-labelled training data and translating the
DP-generated input sentences. Experimental
results show that our approach achieves a significant improvement of 1.58 BLEU points in
translation performance with 66% F-score for
DP generation accuracy.
Metadata
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: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. . Association for Computational Linguistics. |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/N16-1113 |
Copyright Information: | © 2016 ACL |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) ADAPT project (Grant No.:13/RC/2106), DCU-Huawei Joint Project (Grant No.:201504032- A (DCU), YB2015090061 (Huawei) |
ID Code: | 23215 |
Deposited On: | 01 May 2019 14:53 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 01 May 2019 14:53 |
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