Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems

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	Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems
	Xiao, Tong 1; Zhu, Jingbo 1; Liu, Tongran 2
刊名	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
	2013
卷号	195 页码:496-527
关键词	Statistical machine translation Ensemble learning System combination
ISSN号	0197-4556
通讯作者	Liu, TR (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 10A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	2
英文摘要	In this article we address the issue of generating diversified translation systems from a single Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) engine for system combination. Unlike traditional approaches, we do not resort to multiple structurally different SMT systems, but instead directly learn a strong SMT system from a single translation engine in a principled way. Our approach is based on Bagging and Boosting which are two instances of the general framework of ensemble learning. The basic idea is that we first generate an ensemble of weak translation systems using a base learning algorithm, and then learn a strong translation system from the ensemble. One of the advantages of our approach is that it can work with any of current SMT systems and make them stronger almost "for free". Beyond this, most system combination methods are directly applicable to the proposed framework for generating the final translation system from the ensemble of weak systems. We evaluate our approach on Chinese-English translation in three state-of-the-art SMT systems, including a phrase-based system, a hierarchical phrase-based system and a syntax-based system. Experimental results on the NIST MT evaluation corpora show that our approach leads to significant improvements in translation accuracy over the baselines. More interestingly, it is observed that our approach is able to improve the existing system combination systems. The biggest improvements are obtained by generating weak systems using Bagging/Boosting, and learning the strong system using a state-of-the-art system combination method. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
学科主题	Other applied psychology
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Technology
类目[WOS]	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
研究领域[WOS]	Computer Science
关键词[WOS]	RECOGNITION ; COMBINATION ; ALGORITHMS ; LANGUAGE
收录类别	SCI
项目简介	This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.: 61073140, 61272376), the Natural Science Foundation for the Youth of China (Grant No.: 31000468), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No.: 20100042110031) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of ACL 2010 and the AI journal for their pertinent comments, Chunliang Zhang and Shujie Yao for their valuable suggestions for improving this article, and Tianning Li and Rushan Chen for developing parts of the baseline systems.
原文出处	http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0004370212001531/1-s2.0-S0004370212001531-main.pdf?_tid=629e1b8a-a852-11e4-bc57-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1422603432_9e589f8304b5393ebd193d52432a6cf9
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000315839600019
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10737]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Northeastern Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Engn, Shenyang 110819, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xiao, Tong,Zhu, Jingbo,Liu, Tongran. Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems[J]. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,2013,195:496-527.
APA	Xiao, Tong,Zhu, Jingbo,&Liu, Tongran.(2013).Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,195,496-527.
MLA	Xiao, Tong,et al."Bagging and Boosting statistical machine translation systems".ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 195(2013):496-527.