Paraphrasing Swedish Compound Nouns in Machine Translation
Edvin Ullman, Joakim Nivre · 2014
This paper examines the effect of para-phrasing noun-noun compounds in statis-tical machine translation from Swedish to English. The paraphrases are meant to elicit the underlying relationship that holds between the compounding nouns, with the use of prepositional and verb phrases. Though some types of noun-noun compounds are too lexicalized, or have some other qualities that make them un-suitable for paraphrasing, a set of roughly two hundred noun-noun compounds are identified, split and paraphrased to be used in experiments on statistical machine translation. The results indicate a slight improvement in translation of the para-phrased compound nouns, with a minor loss in overall BLEU score. 1