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Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers

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Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers
In this paper, with a belief that a language model that embraces a larger context provides better prediction ability, we present two extensions to standard n-gram language models in statistical machine translation: a backward language model that augments the conventional forward language model, and a mutual information trigger model which captures long-distance dependencies that go beyond the scope of standard n-gram language models. We integrate the two proposed models into phrase-based statistical machine translation and conduct experiments on large-scale training data to investigate their effectiveness. Our experimental results show that both models are able to significantly improve translation quality and collectively achieve up to 1 BLEU point over a competitive baseline.
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
Added 23 Aug 2011
Updated 23 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where ACL
Authors Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
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