Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation

Siyou Liu; Ana Luisa Varani Leal

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_6

Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation

Siyou Liu, Ana Luisa Varani Leal

University of Macau

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Abstract

Adverbial phrase (AdP) contains rich and indispensable information, however, translating them properly is one of big challenges for machine translation (MT) systems. In this paper, we systematically present a contrastive analysis of MT of AdPs from Chinese to Portuguese. Our study is conducted on The International Chinese Newsweekly corpus which consists of 46 Chinese texts (ST) with their respective Portuguese translations given by a state-of-the-art Portuguese-Chinese MT system and human beings (HT). By comparing the syntactic structures of these texts in ST, PCT, and HT sides, we found that nearly 90% MT outputs suffer structural inconsistency with poor translation qualities. Therefore, we discuss and finally propose a series of grammar rules to address the problem. We believe that this work could inspire both MT researchers and industries to boost the performance of Portuguese-Chinese MT systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings
Editors	André Adami, João Silva, António Branco, Paulo Quaresma, Ricardo Ribeiro
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	62-73
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319415512
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_6
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016 - Tomar, Portugal Duration: 13 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9727
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Tomar
Period	13/07/16 → 15/07/16

Keywords

Contrastive analysis
Machine translation
Portuguese-Chinese
Syntactic structure
Syntax rule
Temporal adverbial phrase

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Liu, S., & Leal, A. L. V. (2016). Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation. In A. Adami, J. Silva, A. Branco, P. Quaresma, & R. Ribeiro (Eds.), Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings (pp. 62-73). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9727). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_6

Liu, Siyou ; Leal, Ana Luisa Varani. / Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings. editor / André Adami ; João Silva ; António Branco ; Paulo Quaresma ; Ricardo Ribeiro. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 62-73 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Liu, S & Leal, ALV 2016, Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation. in A Adami, J Silva, A Branco, P Quaresma & R Ribeiro (eds), Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9727, Springer Verlag, pp. 62-73, 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, Tomar, Portugal, 13/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_6

Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation. / Liu, Siyou; Leal, Ana Luisa Varani.
Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings. ed. / André Adami; João Silva; António Branco; Paulo Quaresma; Ricardo Ribeiro. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 62-73 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9727).

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Liu S, Leal ALV. Analysis of temporal adverbial phrases for Portuguese-Chinese machine translation. In Adami A, Silva J, Branco A, Quaresma P, Ribeiro R, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 62-73. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_6

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