The string-to-tree model is one of the most successful syntax-based statistical machine translation(SMT) models. It models the grammaticality of the output via target-side syntax. However, it does not use any semantic...The string-to-tree model is one of the most successful syntax-based statistical machine translation(SMT) models. It models the grammaticality of the output via target-side syntax. However, it does not use any semantic information and tends to produce translations containing semantic role confusions and error chunk sequences. In this paper, we propose two methods to use semantic roles to improve the performance of the string-to-tree translation model:(1) adding role labels in the syntax tree;(2) constructing a semantic role tree, and then incorporating the syntax information into it. We then perform string-to-tree machine translation using the newly generated trees. Our methods enable the system to train and choose better translation rules using semantic information. Our experiments showed significant improvements over the state-of-the-art string-to-tree translation system on both spoken and news corpora, and the two proposed methods surpass the phrase-based system on large-scale training data.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61132009,61201352,61502035,and 61201351)the National Basic Research Program(973)of China(No.2013CB329303)the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology(No.BAICIT-2016007)
文摘The string-to-tree model is one of the most successful syntax-based statistical machine translation(SMT) models. It models the grammaticality of the output via target-side syntax. However, it does not use any semantic information and tends to produce translations containing semantic role confusions and error chunk sequences. In this paper, we propose two methods to use semantic roles to improve the performance of the string-to-tree translation model:(1) adding role labels in the syntax tree;(2) constructing a semantic role tree, and then incorporating the syntax information into it. We then perform string-to-tree machine translation using the newly generated trees. Our methods enable the system to train and choose better translation rules using semantic information. Our experiments showed significant improvements over the state-of-the-art string-to-tree translation system on both spoken and news corpora, and the two proposed methods surpass the phrase-based system on large-scale training data.
