Abstract
In this paper, we use the information redundancy in multilingual input to correct
errors in machine translation and thus improve the quality of multilingual summaries. We consider the case of multidocument summarization, where the input documents are in Arabic, and the output summary is in English. Typically, information that makes it to a summary appears in many different lexical-syntactic forms in the input documents. Further, the use of multiple machine translation systems provides yet more redundancy, yielding different ways to realize that information in English. We demonstrate how errors in the machine translations of the input Arabic documents can be corrected by identifying and generating from such redundancy, focusing on noun phrases.
errors in machine translation and thus improve the quality of multilingual summaries. We consider the case of multidocument summarization, where the input documents are in Arabic, and the output summary is in English. Typically, information that makes it to a summary appears in many different lexical-syntactic forms in the input documents. Further, the use of multiple machine translation systems provides yet more redundancy, yielding different ways to realize that information in English. We demonstrate how errors in the machine translations of the input Arabic documents can be corrected by identifying and generating from such redundancy, focusing on noun phrases.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Conference on Human Language Technology Conference / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(HLT-EMNLP) |
| Place of Publication | Vancouver, Canada |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Event | Human Language Technology Conference(HLT), Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP) - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 6 Oct 2005 → 8 Oct 2005 |
Conference
| Conference | Human Language Technology Conference(HLT), Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP) |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Vancouver |
| Period | 6/10/05 → 8/10/05 |