Phrase-based data selection for language model adaptation in spoken language translation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised phrase-based data selection model, address the problem of selecting no-domain-specific language model (LM) training data to build adapted LM for use. In spoken language translation (SLT) system, we aim at finding the LM training sentences which are similar to the translation task. Compared with the traditional bag-of-words models, the phrase-based data selection model is more effective because it captures contextual information in modeling the selection of phrase as a whole, rather than selection of single words in isolation. Large-scale experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches on both LM perplexity and translation performance, respectively.