An Empirical Study of the Impact of Idioms on Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation of English to Brazilian-Portuguese
Giancarlo Dondoni Salton, Robert Ross, John D. Kelleher · 2014
This paper describes an experiment to evaluate the impact of idioms on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) process using the language pair English/Brazilian-Portuguese.Our results show that on sentences containing idioms a standard SMT system achieves about half the BLEU score of the same system when applied to sentences that do not contain idioms.We also provide a short error analysis and outline our planned work to overcome this limitation.