Using information structure to improve transfer-based MT
- This paper hypothesizes that transfer-based machine translation systems can be improved by encoding information structure in both the source and target grammars, and preserving information structure in the transfer stage. We explore how information structure can be represented within the HPSG/MRS formalism (Pollard and Sag, 1994; Copestake et al., 2005) and how it can help refine multilingual MT. Building upon that framework, we provide a sample translation between English and Japanese and check the feasibility of the proposals in small-scale translation systems built with the HPSG/MRS-based LOGON MT infrastructure (Oepen et al., 2007). Our experiment shows the information structure-based MT system that we propose in this paper reduces the number of translations 75.71% for Japanese and 80.23% for Korean. The dramatic reductions in the number of translations is expected to make a contribution to our HPSG/MRS-based MT in terms of latency as well as accuracy.
Author: | Sanghoun SongORCiDGND, Emily M. BenderORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-715972 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2011.20 |
ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2011/11/16 |
Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (18 : 2011 : Seattle, Wash.) |
Release Date: | 2024/09/06 |
GND Keyword: | Japanisch; Maschinelle Übersetzung; Informationsstruktur |
Volume: | 18.2011 |
Page Number: | 21 |
First Page: | 348 |
Last Page: | 368 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Übersetzungswissenschaft / Translation science |
Licence (German): | ![]() |