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Coerced Markov Models For Cross-Lingual Lexical-Tag Relations

Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai

We introduce the Coerced Markov Model (CMM) to model the relationship between the lexical sequence of a source language and the tag sequence of a target language, with the objective of constraining search in statistical transfer-based machine translation systems. CMMs differ from Hidden Markov Models in that state sequence assignments can take on values coerced from external sources. Given a Chinese sentence, a CMM can be used to predict the corresponding English tag sequence, thus constraining the English lexical sequence produced by a translation model. The CMM can also be used to score competing translation hypotheses in N-best models. Three fundamental problems for CMM designed are discussed. Their solutions lead to the training and testing stages of CMM.

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Computer Science
Publisher
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
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April 26, 2013