Discourse structure in machine translation evaluation

• Main Authors: Joty, Shafiq, Guzmán, Francisco, Màrquez, Lluís, Nakov, Preslav
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Computer Aided Language Translation; Machine Translation Evaluation; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88461; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46925
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this article, we explore the potential of using sentence-level discourse structure for machine translation evaluation. We first design discourse-aware similarity measures, which use all-subtree kernels to compare discourse parse trees in accordance with the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Then...