We propose the integration of clause splitting as a pre-processing step for match retrieval in Translation Memory (TM) systems to increase the number of relevant sub-segment matches. Through a series of experiments, we investigate the impact of clause splitting in instances where the input does not match an entire segment in the TM, but only a clause from a segment. Our results show that there is a statistically significant increase in the number of retrieved matches when both the input segments and the segments in the TM are first processed with a clause splitter.
REF showed that clause splitting as a preprocessing stage significantly improves matching and retrieval.
Improving Translation Memory Matching through Clause Splitting