Summary of The Role Of Handling Attributive Nouns in Improving Chinese-to-english Machine Translation, by Lisa Wang et al.
The Role of Handling Attributive Nouns in Improving Chinese-To-English Machine Translation
by Lisa Wang, Adam Meyers, John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Zevallos
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper focuses on improving machine translation systems for languages with drastically different grammatical conventions, such as Chinese and English. Specifically, it targets the challenges posed by attributive nouns in Chinese, which often cause ambiguities in English translations. To address this issue, the authors created a targeted dataset by manually inserting the omitted particle “DE” into news article titles from the Penn Chinese Discourse Treebank. This dataset was then used to fine-tune Hugging Face Chinese-to-English translation models, resulting in improved handling of the critical function word “DE”. The paper’s findings complement broader strategies suggested by previous studies and offer a practical enhancement by specifically addressing a common error type in Chinese-English translation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to make machine translation better for languages that have very different rules. For example, Chinese and English are hard to translate because of how Chinese nouns work. The authors made a special dataset by adding a missing word (“DE”) to news headlines from China. This helped them improve the way their computer models translate Chinese into English. It’s like getting better at understanding something that was previously confusing. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Discourse » Translation
