A classifier-based preordering approach for English-Vietnamese statistical machine translation

Abstract

Reordering is of essential importance problem for phrase based statistical machine translation (SMT). In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically learn reordering rules as preprocessing step based on a dependency parser in phrase-based statistical machine translation for English to Vietnamese. We used dependency parsing and rules extracting from training the features-rich discriminative classifiers for reordering source-side sentences. We evaluated our approach on English-Vietnamese machine translation tasks, and showed that it outperform the baseline phrase-based SMT system.