Definite Noun Phrases in Statistical Machine Translation into Danish
Sara Stymne · 2009
There are two ways to express definiteness in Danish, which makes it problematic for statistical machine translation (SMT) from English, since the wrong realisation can be chosen. We present a part-of-speechbased method for identifying and transforming English definite NPs that would likely be expressed in a different way in Danish. The transformed English is used for training a phrase-based SMT system. This technique gives significant improvements of translation quality, of up to 22.1 % relative on Bleu, compared to a baseline trained on original English, in two different domains. 1