Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation
Isao Goto, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita · 2012
Reordering is a difficult task in translating between widely different languages such as Japanese and English. We employ the post-ordering framework proposed by (Sudoh et al., 2011b) for Japanese to English transla-tion and improve upon the reordering method. The existing post-ordering method reorders a sequence of target language words in a source language word order via SMT, while our method reorders the sequence by: 1) pars-ing the sequence to obtain syntax structures similar to a source language structure, and 2) transferring the obtained syntax structures into the syntax structures of the target language. 1