Segmentation for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation

In this paper, we report on a set of initial results for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We show that morphological decomposition of the Arabic source is beneficial, especially for smaller-size corpora, and investigate different recombination techniques. We also report on the use of Factored Translation Models for Englishto-Arabic translation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib, James R. Glass
• Keywords: ACL 2008, Computational Linguistics, Factored Translation Models, Morphological Decomposition, Statistical Machine Translation