Zhechev, Ventsislav and van Genabith, Josef
ORCID: 0000-0003-1322-7944
(2010)
Seeding statistical machine translation with translation memory output through tree-based structural alignment.
In: SSST-4 - 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 28 August 2010, Beijing, China.
Abstract
With the steadily increasing demand for high-quality translation, the localisation industry is constantly searching for technologies that would increase translator
throughput, with the current focus on the use of high-quality Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) as a supplement to the established Translation Memory (TM)
technology. In this paper we present a novel modular approach that utilises state-of-the-art sub-tree alignment to pick out pre-translated segments from a TM match and seed with them an SMT system to produce a final translation. We show that the presented system can outperform pure SMT when a good TM match is found. It can also be used in a Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) environment to present almost perfect translations to the human user with markup highlighting the segments of the translation that need to be checked manually for correctness.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Event Type: | Workshop |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
| Published in: | Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation. . Association for Computational Linguistics. |
| Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Official URL: | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W10/ |
| Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
| Funders: | European Framework Programme 7 |
| ID Code: | 15992 |
| Deposited On: | 08 Dec 2010 14:59 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 16:28 |
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