Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Kayah
Keywords:
Statistical Machine Translation, Phrase-based, Hierarchical phrase-based, Operation Sequence Model, Myanmar-Kayah, under-resourcedAbstract
This paper contributes the first evaluation of the quality of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) between Myanmar (Burmese) and Kayah (Kayah Li) languages. We also developed a Myanmar- Kayah parallel corpus (6,590 sentences) based on the Myanmar language of ASEAN MT corpus. The experiments were carried out using three different statistical machine translation approaches: Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT), Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (HPBSMT), and the Operation Sequence Model (OSM). The results show that HPBSMT approach achieves the highest BLEU score for Myanmar to Kayah translation and Operation Sequence Model approach achieves the highest BLEU score for Kayah to Myanmar translation.
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