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Modeling Word Formation in English–German Neural Machine Translation

Abstract

AbstractThis paper studies strategies to model word formation in NMT using rich linguistic information, namely a word segmentation approach that goes beyond splitting into substrings by considering fusional morphology. Our linguistically sound segmentation is combined with a method for target-side inflection to accommodate modeling word formation. The best system variants employ source-side morphological analysis and model complex target-side words, improving over a standard system.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — word formation
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech & Audio