A comparative study on applying hierarchical phrase-based and phrase-based on Thai-Chinese translation

• Main Authors: Luekhong P., Sukhauta R., Porkaew P., Ruangrajitpakorn T., Supnithi T.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84873468328&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/42715
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

To set an appropriate goal of SMT research for Thai-based translation, the comparative study of potential and suitability between phrase-based translation (PBT) and hierarchical phrase-based translation (HPBT) becomes an initial question. Thai-Chinese language-pair is chosen as experimental subject since they share most of common syntactic pattern and Chinese resource is numerous. Based on standard setting, we gain a result that 3-gram HPBT gains significantly better BLEU point over 3-gram PBT while 3-gram HPBT is approximately equal to 5-gram PBT. Moreover, from the results, a Chinese-to-Thai translation obtains better accuracies than a Thai-to-Chinese translation from every approach. © 2012 IEEE.