Ordering translation templates by assigning confidence factors
Author
Öz, Zeynep
Çiçekli, İlyas
Date
1998Source Title
Machine Translation and the Information Soup
Print ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Volume
1529
Pages
51 - 61
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
TTL (Translation Template Learner) algorithm learns lexical level correspondences between two translation examples by using analogical reasoning. The sentences used as translation examples have similar and different parts in the source language which must correspond to the similar and different parts in the target language. Therefore these correspondences are learned as translation templates. The learned translation templates are used in the translation of other sentences. However, we need to assign confidence factors to these translation templates to order translation results with respect to previously assigned confidence factors. This paper proposes a method for assigning confidence factors to translation templates learned by the TTL algorithm. Training data is used for collecting statistical information that will be used in confidence factor assignment process. In this process, each template is assigned a confidence factor according to the statistical information obtained from training data. Furthermore, some template combinations are also assigned confidence factors in order to eliminate certain combinations resulting bad translation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998.
Keywords
AlgorithmsComputational linguistics
Computer aided language translation
Statistics
Analogical reasoning
Confidence factors
Lexical level
Source language
Statistical information
Target language
Training data
Translation templates
Translation (languages)
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27676Published Version (Please cite this version)
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_5https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49478-2