Explorations in using grammatical dependencies for contextual phrase translation disambiguation

Recent research has shown the importance of using source context information to disambiguate source phrases in phrase-based Sta- tistical Machine Translation. Although encouraging results have been obtained, those studies mostly focus on translating into a less inflected target language. In this article, we present an attempt at using source context information to translate from English into French. In addition to information extracted from the immediate context of a source phrase, we also exploit grammatical dependencies information. While automatic evaluation does not exhibit a significant dierence, a manual evaluation we conducted provides evidence that our context-aware translation en- gine outperforms its context-insensitive counterpart.