Hi Marcin,
Sounds like a good idea (clustering and returning representative
translations for each cluster).

As far as I know, there has not been much work on generating diverse lists
of translations, but one notable exception is "Trait-Based Hypothesis
Selection for Machine Translation" by Jacob Devlin and Spyros Matsoukas (
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N12/N12-1059.pdf).  Maybe others know
of other relevant work.

Kevin


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi list,
> is the --distinct parameter currently the only option to generate more
> diverse n-best lists?
>
> I have the following scenario:
> Human translators use Moses like a TM via a Trados Plugin, upon request
> they may see a list of m alternatives, which is just a list of the first
> m sentences from a bigger n-best list. Usually those alternative are not
> very useful (confirmed by translators), as they are still very similar
> to each other and the best sentence. Current idea: generate bigger
> n-best list, cluster using nifty similarity function, display only
> cluster representatives. Somehow I believe something like that should
> have been done before, have you heard of anything like that?
> Best,
> Marcin
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