Title
Morphological Modeling for Machine Translation of English-Iraqi Arabic Spoken Dialogs.
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of morphological modeling in statistical speech-tospeech translation for English to Iraqi Arabic. An analysis of user data from a real-time MT-based dialog system showed that generating correct verbal inflections is a key problem for this language pair. We approach this problem by enriching the training data with morphological information derived from sourceside dependency parses. We analyze the performance of several parsers as well as the effect on different types of translation models. Our method achieves an improvement of more than a full BLEU point and a significant increase in verbal inflection accuracy; at the same time, it is computationally inexpensive and does not rely on target-language linguistic tools.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
HLT-NAACL
Training set,BLEU,Arabic,Computer science,Machine translation,Inflection,Speech recognition,Machine translation software usability,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Dialog system,Parsing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.38
References 
Authors
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katrin Kirchhoff1102695.24
Yik-Cheung Tam219416.04
Colleen Richey311810.91
Wen Wang432729.31