SMT of German Patents at WIPO: Decompounding and Verb Structure Pre-reordering

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt; Bruno Pouliquen

SMT of German Patents at WIPO: Decompounding and Verb Structure Pre-reordering

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt ,
Bruno Pouliquen

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2014) | June 2014

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We describe fragments of the SMT pipeline at WIPO for German as a source language. Two subsystems are discussed in detail: word decompounding and verb structure pre-reordering. Apart from automatic evaluation results for both subsystems, for the pre-reordering mechanism manual evaluation results are reported.