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Improving statistical machine translation with selectional preferences

  • Haiqing Tang
  • , Deyi Xiong*
  • , Min Zhang
  • , Zhengxian Gong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Soochow University

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Abstract

Long-distance semantic dependencies are crucial for lexical choice in statistical machine translation. In this paper, we study semantic dependencies between verbs and their arguments by modeling selectional preferences in the context of machine translation. We incorporate preferences that verbs impose on subjects and objects into translation. In addition, bilingual selectional preferences between source-side verbs and target-side arguments are also investigated. Our experiments on Chinese-to-English translation tasks with large-scale training data demonstrate that statistical machine translation using verbal selectional preferences can achieve statistically significant improvements over a state-of-the-art baseline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016
Subtitle of host publicationTechnical Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology
Pages2154-2163
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9784879747020
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 11 Dec 201616 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameCOLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period11/12/1616/12/16

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