Current re-ranking algorithms for machine translation rely on log-linear models, which have the potential problem of underfitting the training data. We present BoostedMERT, a novel boosting algorithm that uses Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) as a weak learner and builds a re-ranker far more expressive than log-linear models. BoostedMERT is easy to implement, inherits the efficient optimization properties of MERT, and can quickly boost the BLEU score on N-best re-ranking tasks. In this paper, we describe the general algorithm and present preliminary results on the IWSLT 2007 Arabic-English task.
In REF , MERT is used to boost the BLEU score on N -best re-ranking tasks.
Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking
Annual Meeting Of The Association For Computational Linguistics
Computer Science