Improvement of translation quality of English newspaper headlines by automatic preediting
Takehiko Yoshimi, Ichiko Sata · 1999
Since the headlines of English news arti-cles have a characteristic style, dierent from the styles which prevail in ordinary sentences, it is diÆcult for MT systems to generate high quality translations for headlines. We try to solve this problem by adding to an existing system a preedit-ing module which rewrites the headlines to ordinary expressions. Rewriting of head-lines makes it possible to generate better translations which would not otherwise be generated, with little or no changes to the existing parts of the system. Focusing on the absence of a form of the verb of `be', we have described rewriting rules for putting properly the verb `be ' into the headlines. 1