# Natural Language Toolkit: IBM Model 3 # # Copyright (C) 2001-2013 NLTK Project # Authors: Chin Yee Lee, Hengfeng Li, Ruxin Hou, Calvin Tanujaya Lim # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ Translation model that considers how a word can be aligned to multiple words in another language. IBM Model 3 improves on Model 2 by directly modeling the phenomenon where a word in one language may be translated into zero or more words in another. This is expressed by the fertility probability, n(phi | source word). If a source word translates into more than one word, it is possible to generate sentences that have the same alignment in multiple ways. This is modeled by a distortion step. The distortion probability, d(j|i,l,m), predicts a target word position, given its aligned source word's position. The distortion probability replaces the alignment probability of Model 2. The fertility probability is not applicable for NULL. Target words that align to NULL are assumed to be distributed uniformly in the target sentence. The existence of these words is modeled by p1, the probability that a target word produced by a real source word requires another target word that is produced by NULL. The EM algorithm used in Model 3 is: :E step: In the training data, collect counts, weighted by prior probabilities. - (a) count how many times a source language word is translated into a target language word - (b) count how many times a particular position in the target sentence is aligned to a particular position in the source sentence - (c) count how many times a source word is aligned to phi number of target words - (d) count how many times NULL is aligned to a target word :M step: Estimate new probabilities based on the counts from the E step Because there are too many possible alignments, only the most probable ones are considered. First, the best alignment is determined using prior probabilities. Then, a hill climbing approach is used to find other good candidates. Notations --------- :i: Position in the source sentence Valid values are 0 (for NULL), 1, 2, ..., length of source sentence :j: Position in the target sentence Valid values are 1, 2, ..., length of target sentence :l: Number of words in the source sentence, excluding NULL :m: Number of words in the target sentence :s: A word in the source language :t: A word in the target language :phi: Fertility, the number of target words produced by a source word :p1: Probability that a target word produced by a source word is accompanied by another target word that is aligned to NULL :p0: 1 - p1 References ---------- Philipp Koehn. 2010. Statistical Machine Translation. Cambridge University Press, New York. Peter E Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, and Robert L. Mercer. 1993. The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation. Computational Linguistics, 19 (2), 263-311. """ import warnings from collections import defaultdict from math import factorial from nltk.translate import AlignedSent, Alignment, IBMModel, IBMModel2 from nltk.translate.ibm_model import Counts class IBMModel3(IBMModel): """ Translation model that considers how a word can be aligned to multiple words in another language >>> bitext = [] >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['klein', 'ist', 'das', 'haus'], ['the', 'house', 'is', 'small'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['das', 'haus', 'war', 'ja', 'groß'], ['the', 'house', 'was', 'big'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['das', 'buch', 'ist', 'ja', 'klein'], ['the', 'book', 'is', 'small'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['ein', 'haus', 'ist', 'klein'], ['a', 'house', 'is', 'small'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['das', 'haus'], ['the', 'house'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['das', 'buch'], ['the', 'book'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['ein', 'buch'], ['a', 'book'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['ich', 'fasse', 'das', 'buch', 'zusammen'], ['i', 'summarize', 'the', 'book'])) >>> bitext.append(AlignedSent(['fasse', 'zusammen'], ['summarize'])) >>> ibm3 = IBMModel3(bitext, 5) >>> print(round(ibm3.translation_table['buch']['book'], 3)) 1.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.translation_table['das']['book'], 3)) 0.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.translation_table['ja'][None], 3)) 1.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.distortion_table[1][1][2][2], 3)) 1.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.distortion_table[1][2][2][2], 3)) 0.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.distortion_table[2][2][4][5], 3)) 0.75 >>> print(round(ibm3.fertility_table[2]['summarize'], 3)) 1.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.fertility_table[1]['book'], 3)) 1.0 >>> print(round(ibm3.p1, 3)) 0.054 >>> test_sentence = bitext[2] >>> test_sentence.words ['das', 'buch', 'ist', 'ja', 'klein'] >>> test_sentence.mots ['the', 'book', 'is', 'small'] >>> test_sentence.alignment Alignment([(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, None), (4, 3)]) """ def __init__(self, sentence_aligned_corpus, iterations, probability_tables=None): """ Train on ``sentence_aligned_corpus`` and create a lexical translation model, a distortion model, a fertility model, and a model for generating NULL-aligned words. Translation direction is from ``AlignedSent.mots`` to ``AlignedSent.words``. :param sentence_aligned_corpus: Sentence-aligned parallel corpus :type sentence_aligned_corpus: list(AlignedSent) :param iterations: Number of iterations to run training algorithm :type iterations: int :param probability_tables: Optional. Use this to pass in custom probability values. If not specified, probabilities will be set to a uniform distribution, or some other sensible value. If specified, all the following entries must be present: ``translation_table``, ``alignment_table``, ``fertility_table``, ``p1``, ``distortion_table``. See ``IBMModel`` for the type and purpose of these tables. :type probability_tables: dict[str]: object """ super().__init__(sentence_aligned_corpus) self.reset_probabilities() if probability_tables is None: # Get translation and alignment probabilities from IBM Model 2 ibm2 = IBMModel2(sentence_aligned_corpus, iterations) self.translation_table = ibm2.translation_table self.alignment_table = ibm2.alignment_table self.set_uniform_probabilities(sentence_aligned_corpus) else: # Set user-defined probabilities self.translation_table = probability_tables["translation_table"] self.alignment_table = probability_tables["alignment_table"] self.fertility_table = probability_tables["fertility_table"] self.p1 = probability_tables["p1"] self.distortion_table = probability_tables["distortion_table"] for n in range(0, iterations): self.train(sentence_aligned_corpus) def reset_probabilities(self): super().reset_probabilities() self.distortion_table = defaultdict( lambda: defaultdict( lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: self.MIN_PROB)) ) ) """ dict[int][int][int][int]: float. Probability(j | i,l,m). Values accessed as ``distortion_table[j][i][l][m]``. """ def set_uniform_probabilities(self, sentence_aligned_corpus): # d(j | i,l,m) = 1 / m for all i, j, l, m l_m_combinations = set() for aligned_sentence in sentence_aligned_corpus: l = len(aligned_sentence.mots) m = len(aligned_sentence.words) if (l, m) not in l_m_combinations: l_m_combinations.add((l, m)) initial_prob = 1 / m if initial_prob < IBMModel.MIN_PROB: warnings.warn( "A target sentence is too long (" + str(m) + " words). Results may be less accurate." ) for j in range(1, m + 1): for i in range(0, l + 1): self.distortion_table[j][i][l][m] = initial_prob # simple initialization, taken from GIZA++ self.fertility_table[0] = defaultdict(lambda: 0.2) self.fertility_table[1] = defaultdict(lambda: 0.65) self.fertility_table[2] = defaultdict(lambda: 0.1) self.fertility_table[3] = defaultdict(lambda: 0.04) MAX_FERTILITY = 10 initial_fert_prob = 0.01 / (MAX_FERTILITY - 4) for phi in range(4, MAX_FERTILITY): self.fertility_table[phi] = defaultdict(lambda: initial_fert_prob) self.p1 = 0.5 def train(self, parallel_corpus): counts = Model3Counts() for aligned_sentence in parallel_corpus: l = len(aligned_sentence.mots) m = len(aligned_sentence.words) # Sample the alignment space sampled_alignments, best_alignment = self.sample(aligned_sentence) # Record the most probable alignment aligned_sentence.alignment = Alignment( best_alignment.zero_indexed_alignment() ) # E step (a): Compute normalization factors to weigh counts total_count = self.prob_of_alignments(sampled_alignments) # E step (b): Collect counts for alignment_info in sampled_alignments: count = self.prob_t_a_given_s(alignment_info) normalized_count = count / total_count for j in range(1, m + 1): counts.update_lexical_translation( normalized_count, alignment_info, j ) counts.update_distortion(normalized_count, alignment_info, j, l, m) counts.update_null_generation(normalized_count, alignment_info) counts.update_fertility(normalized_count, alignment_info) # M step: Update probabilities with maximum likelihood estimates # If any probability is less than MIN_PROB, clamp it to MIN_PROB existing_alignment_table = self.alignment_table self.reset_probabilities() self.alignment_table = existing_alignment_table # don't retrain self.maximize_lexical_translation_probabilities(counts) self.maximize_distortion_probabilities(counts) self.maximize_fertility_probabilities(counts) self.maximize_null_generation_probabilities(counts) def maximize_distortion_probabilities(self, counts): MIN_PROB = IBMModel.MIN_PROB for j, i_s in counts.distortion.items(): for i, src_sentence_lengths in i_s.items(): for l, trg_sentence_lengths in src_sentence_lengths.items(): for m in trg_sentence_lengths: estimate = ( counts.distortion[j][i][l][m] / counts.distortion_for_any_j[i][l][m] ) self.distortion_table[j][i][l][m] = max(estimate, MIN_PROB) def prob_t_a_given_s(self, alignment_info): """ Probability of target sentence and an alignment given the source sentence """ src_sentence = alignment_info.src_sentence trg_sentence = alignment_info.trg_sentence l = len(src_sentence) - 1 # exclude NULL m = len(trg_sentence) - 1 p1 = self.p1 p0 = 1 - p1 probability = 1.0 MIN_PROB = IBMModel.MIN_PROB # Combine NULL insertion probability null_fertility = alignment_info.fertility_of_i(0) probability *= pow(p1, null_fertility) * pow(p0, m - 2 * null_fertility) if probability < MIN_PROB: return MIN_PROB # Compute combination (m - null_fertility) choose null_fertility for i in range(1, null_fertility + 1): probability *= (m - null_fertility - i + 1) / i if probability < MIN_PROB: return MIN_PROB # Combine fertility probabilities for i in range(1, l + 1): fertility = alignment_info.fertility_of_i(i) probability *= ( factorial(fertility) * self.fertility_table[fertility][src_sentence[i]] ) if probability < MIN_PROB: return MIN_PROB # Combine lexical and distortion probabilities for j in range(1, m + 1): t = trg_sentence[j] i = alignment_info.alignment[j] s = src_sentence[i] probability *= ( self.translation_table[t][s] * self.distortion_table[j][i][l][m] ) if probability < MIN_PROB: return MIN_PROB return probability class Model3Counts(Counts): """ Data object to store counts of various parameters during training. Includes counts for distortion. """ def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.distortion = defaultdict( lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: 0.0))) ) self.distortion_for_any_j = defaultdict( lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: 0.0)) ) def update_distortion(self, count, alignment_info, j, l, m): i = alignment_info.alignment[j] self.distortion[j][i][l][m] += count self.distortion_for_any_j[i][l][m] += count