Can Machine Learning Algorithms Improve Phrase Selection in Hybrid Machine Translation
Christian Federmann · 2012
We describe a substitution-based, hybrid machine translation (MT) system that has been extended with a machine learning component controlling its phrase selection. Our approach is based on a rule-based MT (RBMT) system which creates template translations. Based on the generation parse tree of the RBMT system and standard word alignment computation, we identify potential “translation snippets ” from one or more translation engines which could be substituted into our translation templates. The substitution process is controlled by a binary classifier trained on feature vectors from the different MT engines. Using a set of manually annotated training data, we are able to observe improvements in terms of BLEU scores over a baseline version of the hybrid system. 1