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Namdar S, Faili H, Khadivi S. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) for Highly-Inflectional Scarce-Resource Language . itrc 2013; 5 (1) :39-52
URL: http://journal.itrc.ac.ir/article-1-165-en.html
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Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is a machine translation paradigm, in which translations are generated on the base of statistical models. In this system, parameters are derived from an analysis of a parallel corpus, and SMT quality depends on the ability of learning word translations. Enriching the SMT by a suitable morphology analyser decreases out of vocabulary words and dictionary size dramatically. This could be more considerable when it deals with a highly-inflectional, low-resource, language like Persian. Defining a suitable granularity for word segment may improve the alignment quality in the parallel corpus. In this paper different schemes and word’s combinations segments in a SMT’s experiment from Persian to English language are prospected and the best one-to-one alignment, which is called En-like scheme, is proposed. By using the mentioned scheme the translation’s quality from Persian to English is improved about 3 points with respect to BLEU measure over the phrase-based SMT.

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