Fast Consensus Hypothesis Regeneration for Machine Translation
Boxing Chen, George Foster, Roland Kühn · NPARC · 2010
This paper presents a fast consensus hypothesis regeneration approach for machine translation. It combines the advantages of feature-based fast consensus decoding and hypothesis regeneration. Our approach is more efficient than previous work on hypothesis regeneration, and it explores a wider search space than consensus decoding, resulting in improved performance. Experimental results show consistent improvements across language pairs, and an improvement of up to 0.72 BLEU is obtained over a competitive single-pass baseline on the Chinese-to- English NIST task.