Phrase translation using a bilingual dictionary and n-gram data: A case study from Vietnamese to English

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel dictionary and n-gram based method for translating Vietnamese phrases to English without grammar rules, achieving high-quality translations with an average score of 4.29 out of 5.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach that does not rely on grammar rules, using only a bilingual dictionary and n-gram data for phrase translation.

Findings

Average manual evaluation score of 4.29/5.

High translation quality demonstrated.

Method works without grammar rules.

Abstract

Past approaches to translate a phrase in a language L1 to a language L2 using a dictionary-based approach require grammar rules to restructure initial translations. This paper introduces a novel method without using any grammar rules to translate a given phrase in L1, which does not exist in the dictionary, to L2. We require at least one L1-L2 bilingual dictionary and n-gram data in L2. The average manual evaluation score of our translations is 4.29/5.00, which implies very high quality.