Judit Ács
2020
Better Together: Modern Methods Plus Traditional Thinking in NP Alignment
Ádám Kovács
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Judit Ács
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Andras Kornai
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Gábor Recski
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We study a typical intermediary task to Machine Translation, the alignment of NPs in the bitext. After arguing that the task remains relevant even in an end-to-end paradigm, we present simple, dictionary- and word vector-based baselines and a BERT-based system. Our results make clear that even state of the art systems relying on the best end-to-end methods can be improved by bringing in old-fashioned methods such as stopword removal, lemmatization, and dictionaries