%0 Conference Paper %1 Brown:02 %A Brown, Ralf D. %B Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation %D 2002 %K 2002 compounds mt %T Corpus-Driven Splitting of Compound Words %U http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/papers/tmi02.pdf %X This paper presents a method for splitting compound words into their constituents based on cognate words in the other language of a parallel corpus. A minor extension to the method allows the decompounding of words which do not have cognates in the other language. By decompounding the training corpus for an Example-Based MT system, the incidence of word alignment failure can be substantially reduced, yielding a modest improvement in performance.

@inproceedings{Brown:02, abstract = {This paper presents a method for splitting compound words into their constituents based on cognate words in the other language of a parallel corpus. A minor extension to the method allows the decompounding of words which do not have cognates in the other language. By decompounding the training corpus for an Example-Based MT system, the incidence of word alignment failure can be substantially reduced, yielding a modest improvement in performance.}, added-at = {2007-09-23T15:04:53.000+0200}, author = {Brown, Ralf D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29c7d4f177786c4c601ea5a21008711b2/seandalai}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation}, interhash = {4cf34bf2c84ea4dc6d150b794c1510d7}, intrahash = {9c7d4f177786c4c601ea5a21008711b2}, keywords = {2002 compounds mt}, timestamp = {2007-09-23T15:04:53.000+0200}, title = {Corpus-Driven Splitting of Compound Words}, url = {http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/papers/tmi02.pdf}, year = 2002 }