#9184We directly investigate a subject of much recent debate: do word sense disambigation models helpstatistical machine translation quality?
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assumption . Using a state-of-the-art
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Chinese word sense disambiguation model
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#9207Using a state-of-the-artChinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than the statistical machine translation system alone.
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disambiguation model
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to choose
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translation candidates
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for a typical
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IBM statistical
#9214Using a state-of-the-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choosetranslation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than the statistical machine translation system alone.
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translation candidates
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for a typical
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IBM statistical MT system
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, we find that
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word sense disambiguation
#9219Using a state-of-the-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typicalIBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than the statistical machine translation system alone.
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statistical MT system
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, we find that
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word sense disambiguation
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does not yield significantly better
#9227Using a state-of-the-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find thatword sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than the statistical machine translation system alone.
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translation quality
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than the
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statistical machine translation system
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Error analysis
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#9239Using a state-of-the-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than thestatistical machine translation system alone.
#9261Error analysis suggests several key factors behind this surprising finding, including inherent limitations of currentstatistical MT architectures.