SAMT

In this paper we compare and contrast two approaches to Machine Translation (MT): the CMU-UKA Syntax Augmented Machine Translation system (SAMT) and UPC-TALP N-gram-based Statistical Ma- chine Translation (SMT). SAMT …...

Adding syntactic labels to synchronous context-free translation rules can improve performance, but labeling with phrase struc- ture constituents, as in GHKM (Galley et al., 2004), excludes potentially useful translation rules. …...