Using English as a Pivot Language to Enhance Danish-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation

We inspect two pivot strategies for Danish-Arabic statistical machine translation (SMT) system; phrase translation pivot strategy and sentence translation pivot strategy respectively. English is used as a pivot language. We develop two SMT systems, DanishEnglish and English-Arabic. We use different English-Arabic and English-Danish data resources. Our final results show that SMT systems developed under sentence based pivot strategy outperforms system developed under phrase based pivot strategy, especially when common parallel corpora are not available.

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