An overview of the phrase-based statistical machine translation techniques
2012 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 413-431
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AbstractThis work provides a general overview of the statistical machine translation (SMT) scientific field, which is a subfield of machine translation (MT). Specifically, this paper focuses on one of the most popular SMT approaches, that is, the phrase-based system.The phrase-based translation units are typically extracted using statistical criteria, and they are weighted using different models. These models are log-linearly combined in the decoding, which is in charge of choosing the most probable translation. Significant quality improvements have been produced from original phrase-based SMT systems. Among others, the main challenges are reordering, domain adaptation and evaluation.
2017 ◽
Vol 108
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pp. 283-294
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