Lane is right, but we had good results from models trained on mostly general data with a small proportion of domain specific data. The technical translations didn't really suffer but the model was more versatile. Why not give it a go?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lane Schwartz Sent: 30 September 2011 15:58 To: Taylor Rose Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Tips for creating a well rounded translationmodule? If you can identify document type before translation, a simple way to handle the problem would be to train different models for each genre, then use the appropriate model for each document. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Taylor Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working with a technical/radio technology domain. Mostly > translating manuals and technical documents. Some documents have more > conversational text which my MT module isn't translating well. > -- > Taylor Rose > Machine Translation Intern > Language Intelligence > IRC: Handle: trose > Server: freenode > > > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 10:21 -0400, Lane Schwartz wrote: >> How best to procede depends on what you plan on doing. What domains do >> you want your system to translate? Does a single system need to be >> able to handle multiple domains? >> >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Taylor Rose >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm currently working with a translation module that is trained on very >> > technical data. However, it is not producing adequate translations for >> > conversational and "general" vocabulary. My first thought is to combine >> > my training corpus with one that has a more general scope. Does anyone >> > have experience with this? Will this "water down" my technical data? >> > >> > -- >> > Taylor Rose >> > Machine Translation Intern >> > Language Intelligence >> > IRC: Handle: trose >> > Server: freenode >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Moses-support mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >> > >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > -- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- R.A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love" _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
