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Conference Paper

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Disciplines

1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Publication Details

The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014) at 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Abstract

We evaluate a substitution based technique for improving Statistical Machine Translation performance on idiomatic multiword expressions. The method operates by performing substitution on the original idiom with its literal meaning before translation, with a second substitution step replacing literal meanings with idioms following translation. We detail our approach, outline our implementation and provide an evaluation of the method for the language pair English/Brazilian-Portuguese. Our results show improvements in translation accuracy on sentences containing either morphosyntactically constrained or unconstrained idioms. We discuss the consequences of our results and outline potential extensions to this process.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7BS4R

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.


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