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ACL Anthology Network (All About NLP) (beta) The Association Of Computational Linguistics Anthology Network |
| ACL ID | W06-1607 |
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| Title | Phrasetable Smoothing For Statistical Machine Translation |
| Venue | Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing |
| Session | Main Conference |
| Year | 2006 |
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We discuss different strategies for smooth- ing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation set- tings. We show that any type of smooth- ing is a better idea than the relative- frequency estimates that are often used. The best smoothing techniques yield con- sistent gains of approximately 1% (abso- lute) according to the BLEU metric.