Accuracy-based scoring for DOT: towards direct error minimization for data-oriented translation
Galron, Daniel, Penkale, Sergio, Way, AndyORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Melamed, I. Dan
(2009)
Accuracy-based scoring for DOT: towards direct error minimization for data-oriented translation.
In: EMNLP 2009 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 6-7 August 2009, Singapore.
In this work we present a novel technique to rescore fragments in the Data-Oriented Translation model based on their contribution to translation accuracy. We describe
three new rescoring methods, and present the initial results of a pilot experiment on a small subset of the Europarl corpus. This work is a proof-of-concept, and
is the first step in directly optimizing translation
decisions solely on the hypothesized accuracy of potential translations resulting from those decisions.