Abstract
We investigate syntactic reordering within an English to Arabic translation task. We extend a pre-translation syntactic reordering approach developed on a close language pair (English-Danish) to the distant language pair, English-Arabic. We achieve significant improvements in translation quality over related approaches, measured by manual as well as automatic evaluations. These results prove the viability of this approach for distant languages.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 69-77 |
Number of pages | 9 |
State | Published - 2009 |
Event | EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009 - Athens, Greece Duration: Mar 31 2009 → … |
Conference
Conference | EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Athens |
Period | 3/31/09 → … |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Software
- Linguistics and Language