Reordering Techniques in Japanese and English Machine Translation

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9 - Reordering Techniques in Japanese and English Machine Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2019

Masaaki Nagata

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Meng Ji and

Michael Oakes

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Meng Ji: Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Michael Oakes: Affiliation:
University of Wolverhampton

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English and Japanese have very different word order and form one of the most difficult language pairs for translating each other. In statistical machine translation, it is well known that the translation accuracy between distant languages such as English and Japanese, is significantly lower than that between similar languages such as English and French. In this article, we describe a series of works done at our research groups in NTT to solve the problems in statistical machine translation between language pairs with very different word order such as Japanese and English.

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machine translation word order Japanese English translation head-final word order patent documents

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Information: Advances in Empirical Translation Studies
Developing Translation Resources and Technologies
, pp. 164 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525695.009 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2019

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