Consistent Translation using Discriminative Learning - A Translation Memory-inspired Approach

Yanjun Ma1,  Yifan He2,  Andy Way2,  Josef van Genabith2
1Baidu Inc., 2CNGL, School of Computing, Dublin City University


Abstract

In this paper, we present a discriminative learning method to improve the consistency in phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Our method is inspired by Translation Memory (TM) systems which are widely used by human post-editors in industrial setting. We constrain the translation of an input sentence using its most similar `translation example' retrieved from the training data. Differently from previous research, these constraints are imposed using discriminative learning to optimise the translation performance. We observe that using this method can benefit the SMT system by not only producing consistent translations but also improved translations outputs.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1124.pdf