Dividing and conquering long sentences in a translation system
Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Robert L. Mercer, Surya Mohanty · 1992
The time required for our translation system to handle a sentence of length I is a rapidly growing function of i.We describe here a method for analyzing a sentence into a series of pieces that can be translated sequentially.We show that for sentences with ten or fewer words, it is possible to decrease the translation time by 40% with almost no effect on translation accuracy.We argue that for longer sentences, the effect should be more dramatic.