Distinguishing Degrees of Compositionality in Compound Splitting for Statistical Machine Translation
Marion Weller, Fabienne Cap, Stefan C. Müller, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alexander Fraser · 2014
The paper presents an approach to morphological compound splitting that takes the degree of compositionality into account.We apply our approach to German noun compounds and particle verbs within a German-English SMT system, and study the effect of only splitting compositional compounds as opposed to an aggressive splitting.A qualitative study explores the translational behaviour of non-compositional compounds.