scholarly journals A study on machine translation of resultative constructions

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Pan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Resultative Constructions ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
Resultative Construction ◽  
Translation Systems

Based on an empirical investigation on data collected from four popular machine translation systems, this paper explores the current problems machine translation is confronted with in translating Chinese resultative constructions into English. The paper analyzes their syntactic and semantic differences in construction and in verbal pattern. The paper then further elaborates on the problems and reveals a truth that Chinese resultative construction poses a great challenge to machine translation for being very productive and flexible. Its productivity is credited to the fact that the main verbs in Chinese are mostly implied-fulfillment verbs. Its flexibility could be attributed to the hypothesis that there are fewer constraints on the co-occurrence of the main verb and the resultative in Chinese resultative construction. Finally, possible solutions are proposed in an attempt to solve the problems. 

A first-pass approach for evaluating machine translation systems

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela W. Jordan ◽  
Bonnie J. Dorr ◽  
John W. Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
First Pass ◽  
Translation Systems

scholarly journals Interlingua in machine translation systems for sign languages

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Mikhail Gennadyevich Grif ◽  
Maria Kirillovna Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Translation Systems

scholarly journals NTT’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 Robustness Task

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soichiro Murakami ◽  
Makoto Morishita ◽  
Tsutomu Hirao ◽  
Masaaki Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Translation Systems

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL AND PRAGMATIC ADEQUACY OF JOURNALISTIC STYLE TEXTS TRANSLATION APPLYING MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Goodmanian ◽  
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A. V. Sitko ◽  
I. V. Struk ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Translation Systems

scholarly journals Unsupervised Sub-tree Alignment for Tree-to-Tree Translation

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 733-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Xiao ◽  
J. Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Alignment Accuracy ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Tree Alignment ◽  
Matrix Encoding ◽  
Word Alignments ◽  
Alignment Model ◽  
Translation Systems

This article presents a probabilistic sub-tree alignment model and its application to tree-to-tree machine translation. Unlike previous work, we do not resort to surface heuristics or expensive annotated data, but instead derive an unsupervised model to infer the syntactic correspondence between two languages. More importantly, the developed model is syntactically-motivated and does not rely on word alignments. As a by-product, our model outputs a sub-tree alignment matrix encoding a large number of diverse alignments between syntactic structures, from which machine translation systems can efficiently extract translation rules that are often filtered out due to the errors in 1-best alignment. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms three state-of-the-art baseline approaches in both alignment accuracy and grammar quality. When applied to machine translation, our approach yields a +1.0 BLEU improvement and a -0.9 TER reduction on the NIST machine translation evaluation corpora. With tree binarization and fuzzy decoding, it even outperforms a state-of-the-art hierarchical phrase-based system.

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