A Linguistic Evaluation of Rule-Based, Phrase-Based, and Neural MT Engines

Aljoscha Burchardt, Vivien Macketanz, Jon Dehdari, Georg Heigold, Jan-thorsten Peter, Philip Williams

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In this paper, we report an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of several Machine Translation (MT) engines implementing the three most widely used paradigms. The analysis is based on a manually built test suite that comprises a large range of linguistic phenomena. Two main observations are on the one hand the striking improvement of an commercial online system when turning from a phrase-based to a neural engine and on the other hand that the successful translations of neural MT systems sometimes bear resemblance with the translations of a rule-based MT system.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)159-170
Number of pages12
JournalPrague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
Volume108
Issue number1
Early online date6 Jun 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2017

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