Enabling Medical Translationfor Low-Resource Languages
Table 2: Evaluating triangulated and transliterated phrase tables for Urdu-to-Hindi SMT. Notation: Bu,h = Baseline Phrase Table, Tg = Triangulated Phrase Table, and Tr = Transliteration Phrase Table.
['[BOLD] System  [BOLD] Bu,h', '[BOLD] PT 254K', '[BOLD] Tune 34.18', '[BOLD] Test 34.79', '[BOLD] System  [BOLD] Bu,hTg', '[BOLD] Tune 37.65', '[BOLD] Test 37.58', '[BOLD] System', '[BOLD] Tune', '[BOLD] Test']
By adding interpolated phrase tables and transliteration, we obtain a very sizable gain of +3.35 over the baseline Urdu→Hindi system. Using our best Urdu-to-Hindi system (Bu,hTgTr), we translated the Urdu part of the multi-Indic corpus to form a Hindi-English bi-text. This yielded a synthesized bi-text of ≈87,000 Hindi-English sentence pairs.