MTIL2017: Machine Translation Using Recurrent Neural Network on Statistical Machine Translation

• Main Authors: Mahata Sainik Kumar, Das Dipankar, Bandyopadhyay Sivaji
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2019-07-01
• Series: Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Subjects: machine translation; recurrent neural network; statistical machine translation; language model
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2018-0016

Machine translation (MT) is the automatic translation of the source language to its target language by a computer system. In the current paper, we propose an approach of using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) over traditional statistical MT (SMT). We compare the performance of the phrase table of SMT to the performance of the proposed RNN and in turn improve the quality of the MT output. This work has been done as a part of the shared task problem provided by the MTIL2017. We have constructed the traditional MT model using Moses toolkit and have additionally enriched the language model using external data sets. Thereafter, we have ranked the phrase tables using an RNN encoder-decoder module created originally as a part of the GroundHog project of LISA lab.