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Pidong Wang Hwee Tou Ng. A Beam-Search Decoder for Normalization of Social Media Text with Application to Machine Translation. How to better do social media text normalization for machine translation? Previous work focused on substituting informal words with their formal forms
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Pidong Wang Hwee Tou Ng A Beam-Search Decoder for Normalization of Social Media Text with Application to Machine Translation • How to better do social media text normalization for machine translation? • Previous work focused on substituting informal words with their formal forms • For machine translation, some other operations are needed, e.g., punctuation correction, and missing word recovery. • A beam-search decoder for social media text normalization: • It iteratively normalizes the input message by applying different normalization operations, e.g., word substitution, punctuation correction, missing word recovery, tokenization correction, etc.