System Combination for Machine Translation through Paraphrasing
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathleen R. McKeown · 2015
In this paper, we propose a paraphrasing model to address the task of system combination for machine translation.We dynamically learn hierarchical paraphrases from target hypotheses and form a synchronous context-free grammar to guide a series of transformations of target hypotheses into fused translations.The model is able to exploit phrasal and structural system-weighted consensus and also to utilize existing information about word ordering present in the target hypotheses.In addition, to consider a diverse set of plausible fused translations, we develop a hybrid combination architecture, where we paraphrase every target hypothesis using different fusing techniques to obtain fused translations for each target, and then make the final selection among all fused translations.Our experimental results show that our approach can achieve a significant improvement over combination baselines.i h EP to denote i h E attached with related word positions, use i h e to denote a phrase within i h E , and use i h ep to denote i h e attached with related word positions.For instance, If i h E is "you buy the book", then i h EP would be "you 1 buy 2 the 3 book 4 ".If i h eis "the book", then i h ep is "the 3 book 4 ".For a given sentence i, a MT system h and a MT system k, we use a SCFG denoted by i