%0 Journal Article
%T Comparing and Analyzing Cohesive Devices of SMT and NMT from Chinese to English: A Diachronic Approach
%A Jiao Liu
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 765-772
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2020
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2020.106046
%X This work presents a detailed comparison and analysis of the usage of cohesive devices by three Machine Translation systems from Chinese to English, in both SMT and NMT situations. By both a general analysis of sentence length as well as cohesive devices and detailed analysis of a sentence translation in SMT and NMT with human translation as a reference, it is shown that, compared with SMT, NMT system is better at handling cohesive ties such as additive, adverbs and pronouns; however, both SMT and NMT underperform at dealing with demonstratives and lexical cohesion. This suggests an evidence of improved translation quality and the necessity of pre-editing and post-editing cohesive devices in MT translations.
%K Statistical Machine Translation
%K Neural Machine Translation
%K Cohesive  Devices
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=104402