We directly investigate a subject of much recent debate : do
<term>
word sense disambigation models
</term>
help
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statistical machine translation quality
</term>
?
#9184We directly investigate a subject of much recent debate: do word sense disambigation models help statistical machine translation quality ?
tech,35-3-P05-1048,ak
Using a state-of-the-art
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Chinese word sense 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 MT system
</term>
, we find that
<term>
word sense disambiguation
</term>
does not yield significantly better
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translation quality
</term>
than the
<term>
statistical machine translation system
</term>
alone .
#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 the statistical machine translation system alone.