HPB SMT of FRDC Assisted by Paraphrasing for the NTCIR-9 PatentMT

This paper describes the FRDC machine translation system for the NTCIR-9 PatentMT. The FRDC system JIANZHEN is a hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) translation system. We participated in all the three subtasks, i.e., Chinese to English, Japanese to English and English to Japanese. In this paper, we introduce a novel paraphrasing mechanism to handle a certain kind of Chinese sentences whose syntactic component are far separated. The paraphrasing approach based on the manual templates moves far-separated syntactic components closer so that the translation could become more acceptable. In addition, we single parentheses out for special treatment for all the three languages