We investigate syntactic reordering within an English to Arabic translation task. We extend a pre-translation syntactic reordering approach developed on a close language pair (English-Danish) to the distant language pair, English-Arabic. We achieve significant improvements in translation quality over related approaches, measured by manual as well as automatic evaluations. These results prove the viability of this approach for distant languages.
Syntactic reordering within English to Arabic translation task investigates in REF .
Syntactic Reordering for English-Arabic Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
Computer Science