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Revisiting NMT for Normalization of Early English Letters

1 Jun 2019WS 2019 6archive 2025-07-28

Mika H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Tanja S{\"a}ily, Jack Rueter, J{\"o}rg Tiedemann, Eetu M{\"a}kel{\"a}

This paper studies the use of NMT (neural machine translation) as a normalization method for an early English letter corpus. The corpus has previously been normalized so that only less frequent deviant forms are left out without normalization. This paper discusses different methods for improving the normalization of these deviant forms by using different approaches. Adding features to the training data is found to be unhelpful, but using a lexicographical resource to filter the top candidates produced by the NMT model together with lemmatization improves results.

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