TY - GEN
T1 - Four techniques for online handling of out-of-vocabularywords in Arabic-English statistical machine translation
AU - Habash, Nizar
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We present four techniques for online handling of Out-of-Vocabulary words in Phrasebased Statistical Machine Translation. The techniques use spelling expansion, morphological expansion, dictionary term expansion and proper name transliteration to reuse or extend a phrase table. We compare the performance of these techniques and combine them. Our results show a consistent improvement over a state-of-the-art baseline in terms of BLEU and a manual error analysis.
AB - We present four techniques for online handling of Out-of-Vocabulary words in Phrasebased Statistical Machine Translation. The techniques use spelling expansion, morphological expansion, dictionary term expansion and proper name transliteration to reuse or extend a phrase table. We compare the performance of these techniques and combine them. Our results show a consistent improvement over a state-of-the-art baseline in terms of BLEU and a manual error analysis.
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U2 - 10.3115/1557690.1557706
DO - 10.3115/1557690.1557706
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053399448
SN - 9781932432046
T3 - ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 57
EP - 60
BT - ACL-08
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-08: HLT
Y2 - 15 June 2008 through 20 June 2008
ER -