Linking constructions involving { (DE) are ubiquitous
in Chinese, and can be translated into English
in many different ways. This is a major source
of machine translation error, even when syntax sensitive
translation models are used. This paper
explores how getting more information about the
syntactic, semantic, and discourse context of uses
of { (DE) can facilitate producing an appropriate
English translation strategy. We describe a finergrained
classification of { (DE) constructions in
Chinese NPs, construct a corpus of annotated examples,
and then train a log-linear classifier, which
contains linguistically inspired features. We use the
DE classifier to preprocess MT data by explicitly
labeling { (DE) constructions, as well as reordering
phrases, and show that our approach provides
significant BLEU point gains on MT02 (+1.24),
MT03 (+0.88) and MT05 (+1.49) on a phrasedbased
system. The improvement persists when a hierarchical
reordering model is applied.
Linking constructions involving { (DE) are ubiquitous
in Chinese, and can be translated into English
in many different ways. This is a major source
of machine translation error, even when syntax sensitive
translation models are used. This paper
explores how getting more information about the
syntactic, semantic, and discourse context of uses
of { (DE) can facilitate producing an appropriate
English translation strategy. We describe a finergrained
classification of { (DE) constructions in
Chinese NPs, construct a corpus of annotated examples,
and then train a log-linear classifier, which
contains linguistically inspired features. We use the
DE classifier to preprocess MT data by explicitly
labeling { (DE) constructions, as well as reordering
phrases, and show that our approach provides
significant BLEU point gains on MT02 (+1.24),
MT03 (+0.88) and MT05 (+1.49) on a phrasedbased
system. The improvement persists when a hierarchical
reordering model is applied.
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