TY - GEN
T1 - Syntax-based rewriting for simultaneous machine translation
AU - He, He
AU - Grissom, Alvin
AU - Boyd-Graber, Jordan
AU - Daumé, Hal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Divergent word order between languages causes delay in simultaneous machine translation. We present a sentence rewriting method that generates more monotonic translations to improve the speedaccuracy tradeoff. We design grammaticality and meaning-preserving syntactic transformation rules that operate on constituent parse trees. We apply the rules to reference translations to make their word order closer to the source language word order. On Japanese-English translation (two languages with substantially different structure), incorporating the rewritten, more monotonic reference translation into a phrase-based machine translation system enables better translations faster than a baseline system that only uses gold reference translations.
AB - Divergent word order between languages causes delay in simultaneous machine translation. We present a sentence rewriting method that generates more monotonic translations to improve the speedaccuracy tradeoff. We design grammaticality and meaning-preserving syntactic transformation rules that operate on constituent parse trees. We apply the rules to reference translations to make their word order closer to the source language word order. On Japanese-English translation (two languages with substantially different structure), incorporating the rewritten, more monotonic reference translation into a phrase-based machine translation system enables better translations faster than a baseline system that only uses gold reference translations.
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U2 - 10.18653/v1/d15-1006
DO - 10.18653/v1/d15-1006
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959911269
T3 - Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
SP - 55
EP - 64
BT - Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015
Y2 - 17 September 2015 through 21 September 2015
ER -