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Title: Oracle decoding as a new way to analyze phrase-based machine translation.
Authors: Wisniewski, Guillaume, Yvon, François
Source: Machine Translation; Jun2013, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p115-138, 24p
Subject Terms: ORACLE software, DECODING algorithms, MACHINE translating, HEURISTIC algorithms, LINEAR programming, ERROR analysis in mathematics
Abstract: Extant Statistical Machine Translation systems are very complex pieces of software, which embed multiple layers of heuristics and encompass very large numbers of numerical parameters. As a result, it is difficult to analyze output translations and there is a real need for tools that could help developers to better understand the various causes of errors. In this study, we make a step in that direction and present an attempt to evaluate the quality of the phrase-based translation model. In order to identify those translation errors that stem from deficiencies in the phrase table, we propose to compute the oracle BLEU-4 score, that is the best score that a system based on this phrase table can achieve on a reference corpus. By casting the computation of the oracle BLEU-1 as an Integer Linear Programming problem, we show that it is possible to efficiently compute accurate upper-bounds of this score, and report measures performed on several standard benchmarks. Various other applications of these oracle decoding techniques are also reported and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:Extant Statistical Machine Translation systems are very complex pieces of software, which embed multiple layers of heuristics and encompass very large numbers of numerical parameters. As a result, it is difficult to analyze output translations and there is a real need for tools that could help developers to better understand the various causes of errors. In this study, we make a step in that direction and present an attempt to evaluate the quality of the phrase-based translation model. In order to identify those translation errors that stem from deficiencies in the phrase table, we propose to compute the oracle BLEU-4 score, that is the best score that a system based on this phrase table can achieve on a reference corpus. By casting the computation of the oracle BLEU-1 as an Integer Linear Programming problem, we show that it is possible to efficiently compute accurate upper-bounds of this score, and report measures performed on several standard benchmarks. Various other applications of these oracle decoding techniques are also reported and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:09226567
DOI:10.1007/s10590-012-9134-0