Traduction statistique par recherche locale
Statistical machine translation is a concerted effort towards the automation of the translation process. In the work presented here, we explore one of the major challenges of statistical machine translation: the search step (Brown et al., 1993). State of the art systems such as Moses (Koehn et al., 2007) search by exploring the prefix search space, a computationally costly solution to this potentially NP-complete problem (Knight, 1999). We propose that a local search approach can yield solutions which are qualitatively just as interesting, while keeping memory space and execution time at lower levels (Russell et Norvig, 2010). Furthermore, this type of search facilitates the use of global models for which a complete translation is needed and allows for non-continuous modifications, two tasks made difficult by exploring the prefix search space. The experiments we have conducted reveal that the use of local search during the search step in statistical machine translation is a viable, state of the art approach.
Statistical translation Phrase based model Local search Algorithme glouton Greedy algorithm