Overlapping phrase-level translation rules in an SMT engine
Alicia Tribble, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel · 2004
We explore a technique for adding longer phrase translation pairs to a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. Merging existing phrase-level alignments that have overlapping words on both the source and target sides generates new phrases. The effect on translation quality is reported for an Arabic-English system in the news domain.