Disambiguation of English contractions for machine translation of TV subtitles
Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2011
This paper presents a disambiguation method for English apostrophe+s contractions. They occur frequently in subtitles and pose special difficulties for Machine Translation. We propose to disambiguate these contractions in a preprocessing step and show that this leads to improved translation quality.