A Phrase Translation Probability Estimation Method Considering Alignment Unconsistency
Lv Yajuan · Zhongwen xinxi xuebao · 2011
The phrase translation probability features have great effect on the statistical machine translation.The traditional method has a deficiency in the estimation of phrase translation probability by just dealing with the phrases with consistent word alignments.In this paper,we modify the traditional formula to consider all occurrences of phrases in the corpus.The experimental results on the various test sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.