scholarly journals Query Expansion for Slovak to Bulgarian Language Machine Translation using Parallel Search

2021 ◽  
pp. 351-357
Author(s):  
VELISLAVA STOYKOVA ◽  
DANIELA MAJCHRAKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Parallel Search ◽  
Keyword Query ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Standard Presentation ◽  
Standard Semantic

The paper presents results of the application of a statistical approach for Slovak to Bulgarian language machine translation. It uses Information Retrieval inspired search techniques and employs sever alalgorithmic steps of parallel statistical search with query expansion in Slovak-Bulgarian EUROPARL 7 Corpus using the Sketch Engine software and its scoring. The search includes the generation of concordances,collocations, word sketch differences, word sketches, and thesauri of the studied keyword (query) by using a statistical scoring, which is regarded as intermediate (inter-lingual) semantic standard presentation by means of which the studied keyword (from the source language) is mapped together with its possible translation equivalents (onto the target language. The results present the study of adjectival collocabillity in both Slovak and Bulgarian language from the corpus of political speech texts outlining the standard semantic relations based on the evaluation of statistical scoring. Finally, the advantages and shortcomings of the approach are discussed.

scholarly journals Knowledge Graphs Effectiveness in Neural Machine Translation Improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benyamin Ahmadnia ◽  
Bonnie J. Dorr ◽  
Parisa Kordjamshidi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Neural Machine Translation ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Knowledge Graphs ◽  
Unknown Words

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems require a massive amount of Maintaining semantic relations between words during the translation process yields more accurate target-language output from Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Although difficult to achieve from training data alone, it is possible to leverage Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to retain source-language semantic relations in the corresponding target-language translation. The core idea is to use KG entity relations as embedding constraints to improve the mapping from source to target. This paper describes two embedding constraints, both of which employ Entity Linking (EL)---assigning a unique identity to entities---to associate words in training sentences with those in the KG: (1) a monolingual embedding constraint that supports an enhanced semantic representation of the source words through access to relations between entities in a KG; and (2) a bilingual embedding constraint that forces entity relations in the source-language to be carried over to the corresponding entities in the target-language translation. The method is evaluated for English-Spanish translation exploiting Freebase as a source of knowledge. Our experimental results show that exploiting KG information not only decreases the number of unknown words in the translation but also improves translation quality.

scholarly journals Optimizing Tokenization Choice for Machine Translation across Multiple Target Languages

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Zalmout ◽  
Nizar Habash
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Context Variable ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Morphologically Rich Languages ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
Language Text

AbstractTokenization is very helpful for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), especially when translating from morphologically rich languages. Typically, a single tokenization scheme is applied to the entire source-language text and regardless of the target language. In this paper, we evaluate the hypothesis that SMT performance may benefit from different tokenization schemes for different words within the same text, and also for different target languages. We apply this approach to Arabic as a source language, with five target languages of varying morphological complexity: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Our results show that different target languages indeed require different source-language schemes; and a context-variable tokenization scheme can outperform a context-constant scheme with a statistically significant performance enhancement of about 1.4 BLEU points.

scholarly journals Controlling Neural Machine Translation Formality with Synthetic Supervision

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 8568-8575
Author(s):  
Xing Niu ◽  
Marine Carpuat
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Sentence Pair ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Neural Machine Translation ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Training Examples ◽  
Language Content ◽  
Missing Element

This work aims to produce translations that convey source language content at a formality level that is appropriate for a particular audience. Framing this problem as a neural sequence-to-sequence task ideally requires training triplets consisting of a bilingual sentence pair labeled with target language formality. However, in practice, available training examples are limited to English sentence pairs of different styles, and bilingual parallel sentences of unknown formality. We introduce a novel training scheme for multi-task models that automatically generates synthetic training triplets by inferring the missing element on the fly, thus enabling end-to-end training. Comprehensive automatic and human assessments show that our best model outperforms existing models by producing translations that better match desired formality levels while preserving the source meaning.1

A Knowledge-Based Machine Translation Using AI Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Sahar A. El-Rahman ◽  
Tarek A. El-Shishtawy ◽  
Raafat A. El-Kammar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation System ◽  
Module Structure ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Word Category ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Transfer Rules

This article presents a realistic technique for the machine aided translation system. In this technique, the system dictionary is partitioned into a multi-module structure for fast retrieval of Arabic features of English words. Each module is accessed through an interface that includes the necessary morphological rules, which directs the search toward the proper sub-dictionary. Another factor that aids fast retrieval of Arabic features of words is the prediction of the word category, and accesses its sub-dictionary to retrieve the corresponding attributes. The system consists of three main parts, which are the source language analysis, the transfer rules between source language (English) and target language (Arabic), and the generation of the target language. The proposed system is able to translate, some negative forms, demonstrations, and conjunctions, and also adjust nouns, verbs, and adjectives according their attributes. Then, it adds the symptom of Arabic words to generate a correct sentence.

scholarly journals A Study of Neural Machine Translation from Chinese to Urdu

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
. Zeeshan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Neural Machine Translation ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Score Method ◽  
Translation Methods

Machine Translation (MT) is used for giving a translation from a source language to a target language. Machine translation simply translates text or speech from one language to another language, but this process is not sufficient to give the perfect translation of a text due to the requirement of identification of whole expressions and their direct counterparts. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is one of the most standard machine translation methods, which has made great progress in the recent years especially in non-universal languages. However, local language translation software for other foreign languages is limited and needs improving. In this paper, the Chinese language is translated to the Urdu language with the help of Open Neural Machine Translation (OpenNMT) in Deep Learning. Firstly, a Chineseto Urdu language sentences datasets were established and supported with Seven million sentences. After that, these datasets were trained by using the Open Neural Machine Translation (OpenNMT) method. At the final stage, the translation was compared to the desired translation with the help of the Bleu Score Method.

An Experimental Platform for Cross-Language Document Retrieval

2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 3325-3329
Author(s):  
Long Yue Wang ◽  
Derek F. Wong ◽  
Lidia S. Chao
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Experimental Platform ◽  
Precision Evaluation ◽  
Query Generation ◽  
Cross Language

This paper presents a proposed Cross-Language Document Retrieval experimental platform integrated with preprocessing of training data, document translation, query generation, document retrieval and precision evaluation modules. Given a certain document in source language, it will be translated into target language by statistical machine translation module which is trained by selected training data. The query generation module then selects the most relevant words in the translated version of the document as searching query. After all the documents in the target language are ranked by the document retrieval module, the system will choose the N-best documents as its target language versions. Finally, the results can be evaluated by precision evaluator, which can reflect the merits of the strategies. Experimental results showed that this platform was effective and achieved very good performance.

scholarly journals TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH TASKS INTO INDONESIAN THROUGH ONLINE MACHINE TRANSLATION PROGRAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Emzir Emzir ◽  
Ninuk Lustyantie ◽  
Akbar Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
State University ◽  
Optimum Result ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Different Cultures

The objective of this research is to obtain a deep understanding about the online machine translation of graduate students in the Language Education Doctoral Program of State University of Jakarta, Indonesia, from source language to target language in order to achieve equivalence in the subject of Language Translation and Education. The approach used is qualitative approach with ethnography method. The translation process is conducted by writing down words or copying-pasting sentences to be translated and then those words/sentences will be automatically translated by machine translation. A repetitive edit, revision and correction process shall be first performed in order to get an optimum result i.e. translated sentences are equal in textual and meanings. The deviations occur due to inaccurate equivalents caused by different cultures between the source language and target language as well as the scope of translated language scientific field. The used strategy is a literal translation. Based on the research results, the translation of English tasks to Indonesian through the online translation program is very useful to facilitate the students’ lecturing process in completing their tasks.

scholarly journals KUALITAS HASIL TERJEMAHAN GOOGLE TRANSLATE DARI BAHASA ARAB KE BAHASA INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Hidayatul Khoiriyah
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The development of technology has a big impact on human life. The existence of a machine translation is the result of technological advancements that aim to facilitate humans in translating one language into another. The focus of this research is to examine the quality of the google translate machine in terms of vocabulary accuracy, clarity, and reasonableness of meaning. Data of mufradāt taken from several Arabic translation dictionaries, while the text is taken from the phenomenal work of Dr. Aidh Qorni in the book Lā Tahzan. The method used in this research is the translation critic method. </em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The results showed that in terms of the accuracy of vocabulary and terms, Google Translate has a good translation quality. In terms of clarity and reasonableness of meaning, google translate has not been able to transmit ideas from the source language well into the target language. Furthermore, in grammatical, the results of the google translate translation do not have a grammatical arrangement, the results of the google translate translation do not have a good grammatical structure and are by following the rules that applied in the target Indonesian language.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>From the data, it shows that google translate should not be used as a basis for translating an Arabic text into Indonesian, especially in translating verses of the Qur'</em><em>ā</em><em>n and Hadīts. A beginner translator should prefer a dictionary rather than using google translate to effort and improve the ability to translate.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Key Words: Translation, Google Translate, Arabic</em></strong></p>

scholarly journals A Bicolano-to-Tagalog Transfer-Based Machine Translation System

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S8) ◽  
pp. 1324-1330
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Internal Representation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation System ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Transfer Rules ◽  
Machine Translation System ◽  
Overall Performance

The Bicolano-Tagalog Transfer-based Machine Translation System is a unidirectional machine translator for languages Bicolano and Tagalog. The transfer-based approach is divided into three phase: Pre-Processing Analysis, Morphological Transfer, and Sentence Generation. The system analyze first the source language (Bicolano) input to create some internal representation. This includes the tokenizer, stemmer, POS tag and parser. Through transfer rules, it then typically manipulates this internal representation to transfer parsed source language syntactic structure into target language syntactic structure. Finally, the system generates Tagalog sentence from own morphological and syntactic information. Each phase will undergo training and evaluation test for the competence of end-results. Overall performance shows a 71.71% accuracy rate.

scholarly journals Source Language Adaptation Approaches for Resource-Poor Machine Translation

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pidong Wang ◽  
Preslav Nakov ◽  
Hwee Tou Ng
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Language ◽  
World Languages ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Resource Poor ◽  
Morphological Variants ◽  
Cross Lingual ◽  
Translation Systems

Most of the world languages are resource-poor for statistical machine translation; still, many of them are actually related to some resource-rich language. Thus, we propose three novel, language-independent approaches to source language adaptation for resource-poor statistical machine translation. Specifically, we build improved statistical machine translation models from a resource-poor language POOR into a target language TGT by adapting and using a large bitext for a related resource-rich language RICH and the same target language TGT. We assume a small POOR–TGT bitext from which we learn word-level and phrase-level paraphrases and cross-lingual morphological variants between the resource-rich and the resource-poor language. Our work is of importance for resource-poor machine translation because it can provide a useful guideline for people building machine translation systems for resource-poor languages. Our experiments for Indonesian/Malay–English translation show that using the large adapted resource-rich bitext yields 7.26 BLEU points of improvement over the unadapted one and 3.09 BLEU points over the original small bitext. Moreover, combining the small POOR–TGT bitext with the adapted bitext outperforms the corresponding combinations with the unadapted bitext by 1.93–3.25 BLEU points. We also demonstrate the applicability of our approaches to other languages and domains.

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