What's in a translation rule?

We propose a theory that gives formal semantics to word-level alignments defined over parallel corpora. We use our theory to introduce a linear algorithm that can be used to derive from word-aligned, parallel corpora the minimal set of syntactically motivated transformation rules that explain human translation data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu
• Keywords: Formal Semantics, NAACL 2004, NAACL 2007, Parallel Corpora, Word-level Alignments