Phrase-based Model
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Phrase-based machine translation (PBMT) is probably the most widely used approach to MT today. It is relatively simple and easy to adapt to new languages.
Phrase Extraction
PBMT uses phrases as the basic unit of translation. Phrases are simply sequences of words which have been observed in the training data, they don't correspond to any linguistic notion of phrases.
In order to obtain a phrase table (a probabilistic dictionary of phrases), we need word-aligned parallel data. A heuristic is used to
See Also
- [www.statmt.org/book/slides/05-phrase-based-models.pdf Philipp Koehn's slides on PBMT]