Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4592/2007, 364-375, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73351-5_32

Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese and Its Application in Chinese-English Machine Translation

Jing Peng and Kenji Araki

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a learning classifier based on maximum entropy (ME) for resolving ZA in Chinese. Besides regular grammatical, lexical, positional and semantic features, we develop two innovative Web-based features for extracting additional semantic information of ZA from the Web. Our study shows the Web as a knowledge source can be incorporated effectively in the learning framework and significantly improves its performance. In the application of ZA resolution in MT, it is viewed as a pre-processing module that is detachable and MT-independent. The experiment results demonstrate a signifcant improvement on BLEU/NIST scores after the ZA resolution is employed.

Keywords  zero anaphora resolution - Web-based features - ME-based classifier - machine translation

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