Egyptian Arabic to EnglishStatistical Machine Translation Systemfor NIST OpenMT’2015
Table 2: Experiments in adapting Egyptian to look like MSA.
['[EMPTY]', 'SMS Test', 'SMS TestG', 'CHT Test', 'CHT TestG', 'CTS Test', 'CTS TestG']
We can see that converting Egyptian to MSA yields improvements that are systematic across the three genres and also across the two test datasets. However, this improvement is not very large and ranges from 0.18 to 0.70 BLEU points absolute.