Maximum Entropy Model for Example-Based Machine Translation

Abstract

Most example-based machine translation (EBMT) systems handle their translation examples using some heuristic measures based on human intuition. However, these heuristic rules are usually hard to be effectively organized to scale to incorporate diverse features to cover more language phenomenon and large domains. In this paper, we use machine learning approach for EBMT model design instead of human intuition. Maximum entropy (ME) model is introduced in order to adequately incorporate different kinds of features inherited in the translation examples effectively. At the same time, a multi-dimensional feature space is formally constructed to include various features of different aspects. In the experiments, the proposed model shows significant performance improvement.