Haque, Rejwanul ORCID: 0000-0003-1680-0099, Naskar, Sudip Kumar, van Genabith, Josef ORCID: 0000-0003-1322-7944 and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2009) Experiments on domain adaptation for English-Hindi SMT. In: PACLIC 23 - the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 3-5 December 2009, Hong Kong.
Abstract
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems are usually trained on large amounts of bilingual text and monolingual target language text. If a significant amount of out-of-domain data is added to the training data, the quality of translation can drop. On the other hand, training an SMT system on a small amount of training material for given indomain data leads to narrow lexical coverage which again results in a low translation quality. In this paper, (i) we explore domain-adaptation techniques to combine large out-of-domain training data with small-scale in-domain training data for English—Hindi statistical machine translation and (ii) we cluster large out-of-domain training data to extract sentences similar to in-domain sentences and apply adaptation techniques to combine clustered sub-corpora
with in-domain training data into a unified framework, achieving a 0.44 absolute corresponding to a 4.03% relative improvement in terms of BLEU over the baseline.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | statistical machine translation; domain adaptation; |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Official URL: | http://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/PACLIC23_index.ht... |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 15175 |
Deposited On: | 15 Feb 2010 14:52 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 16:31 |
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