Banerjee, Pratyush, Du, Jinhua ORCID: 0000-0002-3267-4881, Li, Baoli, Kumar Naskar, Sudip, Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and van Genabith, Josef ORCID: 0000-0003-1322-7944 (2010) Combining multi-domain statistical machine translation models using automatic classifiers. In: AMTA 2010 - 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 31 October - 4 November 2010, Denver, CO, USA.
Abstract
This paper presents a set of experiments on Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation systems. The experiments focus on Chinese-English and two domain-specific
corpora. The paper presents a novel approach for combining multiple domain-trained translation models to achieve improved translation quality for both domain-specific as well as combined sets of sentences. We train a statistical
classifier to classify sentences according to the appropriate domain and utilize the corresponding domain-specific MT models to translate them. Experimental results show that the method achieves a statistically significant
absolute improvement of 1.58 BLEU (2.86% relative improvement) score over a translation model trained on combined data, and considerable improvements over a model using multiple decoding paths of the Moses decoder, for the combined domain test set. Furthermore, even for domain-specific test sets, our approach works almost as well as dedicated domain-specific models and perfect classification.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) |
Publisher: | Association for Machine Translation in the Americas |
Official URL: | http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/AMTA/html/toc.htm |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland |
ID Code: | 15804 |
Deposited On: | 06 Dec 2010 14:04 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 09 Nov 2018 15:36 |
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