Translation Divergences in Chinese–English Machine Translation: An Empirical Investigation

In this article, we conduct an empirical investigation of translation divergences between Chinese and English relying on a parallel treebank. To do this, we first devise a hierarchical alignment scheme where Chinese and English parse trees are aligned in a way that eliminates conflicts and redundanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dun Deng, Nianwen Xue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-06-01
Series:Computational Linguistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00292