Identifying bilingual Multi-Word Expressions for Statistical Machine Translation
Dhouha Bouamor, Nasredine Semmar, Pierre Zweigenbaum · 2012
MultiWord Expressions (MWEs) repesent a key issue for numerous applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP) especially for Machine Translation (MT).In this paper, we describe a strategy for detecting translation pairs of MWEs in a French-English parallel corpus.In addition we introduce three methods aiming to integrate extracted bilingual MWES in MOSES, a phrase based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) system.We experimentally show that these textual units can improve translation quality.