Chinese Syntactic Reordering through Contrastive Analysis of Predicate-predicate Patterns in Chinese-to-Korean SMT

Jin-Ji Li, Jungi Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee


Abstract
We propose a Chinese dependency tree reordering method for Chinese-to-Korean SMT systems through analyzing systematic differences between the Chinese and Korean languages. Translating predicate-predicate patterns in Chinese into Korean raises various issues such as long-distance reordering. This paper concentrates on syntactic reordering of predicate-predicate patterns in Chinese dependency trees through contrastively analyzing construction types in Chinese and their corresponding translations in Korean. We explore useful linguistic knowledge that assists effective syntactic reordering of Chinese dependency trees; we design two experiments with different kinds of linguistic knowledge combined with the phrase and hierarchical phrase-based SMT systems, and assess the effectiveness of our proposed methods. The experiments achieved significant improvements by resolving the long-distance reordering problem.
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Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers
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October 31-November 4
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2010
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Jin-Ji Li, Jungi Kim, and Jong-Hyeok Lee. 2010. Chinese Syntactic Reordering through Contrastive Analysis of Predicate-predicate Patterns in Chinese-to-Korean SMT. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers, Denver, Colorado, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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