Syntactic Coherence between Languages

The use of synchronous context free grammars assumes an isomorphism (modulo reordering) of the syntactic structure of the source and target sentence.

Syntactic Coherence is the main subject of 10 publications. 7 are discussed here.

Publications

Fox (2002); Hwa et al. (2002) examine how well the underlying assumption of syntactic coherence between languages hold up in practice. In phrase-based systems, syntactic consitituents are not sufficient to map units between languages (Koehn et al., 2003). For establishing mappings in a tree-based transfer models, syntactic parsing of each side introduces constraints that may make it more difficult to match up sentences (Zhang and Gildea, 2004). When studying actual parallel sentences, the complexity of syntactic transfer rules to match them up are often more complex than expected (Wellington et al., 2006). Parallel tree-banks are also a source of data to examine the parallelism between two languages, although the parallelism also depends on the annotation standards (Buch-Kromann, 2007). Visualization and searching such treebanks may also provide important insights (Volk et al., 2007).

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• S. Arnoult and K. Sima'an (2012): Adjunct Alignment in Translation Data with an Application to Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of th 16th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)

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  @inproceedings{EAMT-2012-Arnoult,
  author = {S. Arnoult and K. Sima'an},
  title = {Adjunct Alignment in Translation Data with an Application to Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation},
  url = {http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2012-Arnoult},
  pages = {287-294},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of th 16th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)},
  location = {Trento, Italy},
  editor = {Mauro Cettolo and Marcello Federico and Lucia Specia and Andy Way},
  year = 2012
  }
  Arnoult and Sima'an (2012)
• Feng, Minwei and Sun, Weiwei and Ney, Hermann (2012): Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-Based SMT, Proceedings of COLING 2012

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  @InProceedings{feng-sun-ney:2012:PAPERS,
  author = {Feng, Minwei and Sun, Weiwei and Ney, Hermann},
  title = {Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-Based {SMT}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2012},
  month = {December},
  address = {Mumbai, India},
  publisher = {The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee},
  pages = {867--878},
  url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C12-1053},
  year = 2012
  }
  Feng et al. (2012)
• Goto, Isao and Utiyama, Masao and Sumita, Eiichiro (2012): Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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  @InProceedings{goto-utiyama-sumita:2012:ACL2012short,
  author = {Goto, Isao and Utiyama, Masao and Sumita, Eiichiro},
  title = {Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
  month = {July},
  address = {Jeju Island, Korea},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {311--316},
  url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P12-2061},
  year = 2012
  }
  Goto et al. (2012)