Translation Paraphrases in Phrase-Based Machine Translation

Abstract. In this paper we present an analysis of a phrase-based ma-chine translation methodology that integrates paraphrases obtained from an intermediary language (French) for translations between Spanish and English. The purpose of the research presented in this document is to find out how much extra information (i.e. improvements in translation quality) can be found when using Translation Paraphrases (TPs). In this document we present an extensive statistical analysis to support conclusions.