Improving subject-verb agreement in SMT

E Vanmassenhove, J Du, A Way - 2016 - doras.dcu.ie
Ensuring agreement between the subject and the main verb is crucial for the correctness of
the information that a sentence conveys. While generating correct subject-verb agreement is …

[PDF][PDF] How to account for idiomatic German support verb constructions in statistical machine translation

F Cap, M Nirmal, M Weller… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
Support-verb constructions (ie, multiword expressions combining a semantically light verb
with a predicative noun) are problematic for standard statistical machine translation systems …

[PDF][PDF] Experiments with word alignment, normalization and clause reordering for SMT between English and German

M Holmqvist, S Stymne… - Proceedings of the Sixth …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the LIU system for the WMT 2011 shared task for translation between
German and English. For English–German we attempted to improve the translation tables …

Comparing constituency and dependency representations for smt phrase-extraction

M Hearne, S Ozdowska, J Tinsley - … de la 15ème conférence sur le …, 2008 - aclanthology.org
We consider the value of replacing and/or combining string-basedmethods with syntax-
based methods for phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT), and we also …

Using supertags as source language context in SMT

R Haque, SK Naskar, Y Ma, A Way - 2009 - doras.dcu.ie
Recent research has shown that Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (PB-SMT)
systems can benefit from two enhancements:(i) using words and POS tags as context …

Using source-language transformations to address register mismatches in SMT

M Rayner, P Bouillon, B Haddow - … of the 10th Conference of the …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
Mismatches between training and test data are a ubiquitous problem for real SMT
applications. In this paper, we examine a type of mismatch that commonly arises when …

Mitigating the Problems of SMT using EBMT

S Dandapat - 2012 - doras.dcu.ie
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) typically has difficulties with less-resourced languages
even with homogeneous data. In this thesis we address the application of Example-Based …

[PDF][PDF] Phrase linguistic classification and generalization for improving statistical machine translation

A de Gispert - Proceedings of the ACL Student Research …, 2005 - aclanthology.org
In this paper a method to incorporate linguistic information regarding single-word and
compound verbs is proposed, as a first step towards an SMT model based on linguistically …

[PDF][PDF] Alignment-based reordering for SMT.

M Holmqvist, S Stymne, L Ahrenberg, M Merkel - LREC, 2012 - mt-archive.net
We present a method for improving word alignment quality for phrase-based SMT by
reordering the source text according to the target word order suggested by an initial word …

[PDF][PDF] Grammatical machine translation

S Riezler, JT Maxwell III - Proceedings of the Human Language …, 2006 - aclanthology.org
We present an approach to statistical machine translation that combines ideas from phrase-
based SMT and traditional grammar-based MT. Our system incorporates the concept of multi …