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Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

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Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
A principal weakness of conventional (i.e., non-hierarchical) phrase-based statistical machine translation is that it can only exploit continuous phrases. In this paper, we extend phrase-based decoding to allow both source and target phrasal discontinuities, which provide better generalization on unseen data and yield significant improvements to a standard phrase-based system (Moses). More interestingly, our discontinuous phrasebased system also outperforms a state-of-the-art hierarchical system (Joshua) by a very significant
Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where NAACL
Authors Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning
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