A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation.

Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsChiang, D.
Conference NameProceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the ACL
Pagination263--270
Conference Start DateJune 25-30
Conference LocationUniversity of Michigan, USA
AbstractWe present a statistical phrase-based translation model that uses hierarchical phrases— phrases that contain subphrases. The model is formally a synchronous context-free grammar but is learned from a bitext without any syntactic information. Thus it can be seen as a shift to the formal machinery of syntaxbased translation systems without any linguistic commitment. In our experiments using BLEU as a metric, the hierarchical phrasebased model achieves a relative improvement of 7.5% over Pharaoh, a state-of-the-art phrase-based system.
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