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Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation

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Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Phrase-based decoding produces state-of-theart translations with no regard for syntax. We add syntax to this process with a cohesion constraint based on a dependency tree for the source sentence. The constraint allows the decoder to employ arbitrary, non-syntactic phrases, but ensures that those phrases are translated in an order that respects the source tree's structure. In this way, we target the phrasal decoder's weakness in order modeling, without affecting its strengths. To further increase flexibility, we incorporate cohesion as a decoder feature, creating a soft constraint. The resulting cohesive, phrase-based decoder is shown to produce translations that are preferred over non-cohesive output in both automatic and human evaluations.
Colin Cherry
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ACL
Authors Colin Cherry
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