Low Resourced Machine Translation via Morpho-syntactic Modeling: The Case of Dialectal Arabic
We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of naturally occurring parallel data; yet its importance is evidenced by dialectal Arabic's wide usage and breadth of inter-dialect variation, comparable to that of Romance languages. Our results suggest that modeling morphology and syntax significantly improves dialect-to-dialect translation, though optimizing such data-sparse models requires consideration of the linguistic differences between dialects and the nature of available data and resources. On a single-reference blind test set where untranslated input scores 6.5 BLEU and a model trained only on parallel data reaches 14.6, pivot techniques and morphosyntactic modeling significantly improve performance to 17.5.
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