Co-reference Resolution of Elided Subjects and Possessive Pronouns in Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation

Annette Rios Gonzales, Don Tuggener


Abstract
This paper presents a straightforward method to integrate co-reference information into phrase-based machine translation to address the problems of i) elided subjects and ii) morphological underspecification of pronouns when translating from pro-drop languages. We evaluate the method for the language pair Spanish-English and find that translation quality improves with the addition of co-reference information.
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E17-2104
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Mirella Lapata, Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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657–662
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Annette Rios Gonzales and Don Tuggener. 2017. Co-reference Resolution of Elided Subjects and Possessive Pronouns in Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 657–662, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Co-reference Resolution of Elided Subjects and Possessive Pronouns in Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation (Rios Gonzales & Tuggener, EACL 2017)
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