A Categorization of Hiero Reordering Rules

We propose to classify the Hiero grammar into subcategories, each of which is characterized with a specific reordering pattern. The subcategories enable us to encourage certain reordering patterns across a language-pair with a proper mixture-weight, to build a better grammar representation for machine translation. The Hiero grammar is classified according to the positions and the relative orders of the non-terminals (variables) and lexical items: variables with lexical items defining their boundaries, and the monotone/nonmonotone nature. We propose to learn the mixture-weight in two simple ways, relying on minimum error rate training and maximum likelihood training, respectively. Improved translation results were obtained from a state-of-the-art Arabic-English Hiero system.

By: Bing Zhao

Published in: RC24910 in 2009

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