Extracting Chinese-English phrase translation pairs based on tree-tree alignment

Author

Zhang, Chun-xiang ; Gao, Xue-yao ; Liu, Kun ; Sun, Da-song ; Liu, Yong ; Lv, Hong-li

Author_Institution

Sch. of Software, Harbin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Harbin, China

Volume

4

fYear

2011

fDate

10-13 July 2011

Firstpage

1492

Lastpage

1496

Abstract

Phrase translation pairs are very useful for bilingual lexicography, machine translation system, cross-lingual information retrieval and many applications in natural language processing. Linguistics knowledge in lexicon and statistics information in corpus can be used for extracting phrase translation pairs. In this paper, we propose a new method to extract phrase translation pairs based on aligning Chinese parsing tree and English parsing tree in a bilingual sentence pair. Experimental results indicate that the extracted phrase translation pairs achieve 59.10% at accuracy, when the new method is applied.

Keywords

computational linguistics; feature extraction; grammars; information retrieval; language translation; natural language processing; text analysis; Chinese-English parsing tree; Chinese-English phrase translation pairs; bilingual lexicography; bilingual sentence pair; corpus; cross-lingual information retrieval; linguistics knowledge; machine translation system; natural language processing; statistics information; tree-tree alignment; Accuracy; Cybernetics; Educational institutions; Machine learning; Natural language processing; Subspace constraints; Syntactics; Phrase translation pairs; bilingual sentence pair; linguistics knowledge; natural language processing; statistics information;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

ISSN

2160-133X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0305-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2011.6016965

Filename

6016965