The demand for statistical machine translation on mobile terminals is increasing rapidly, but translation speed is restricted by the embedded processors without a floating-point unit. This paper proposes an approach to convert floating-point numbers into fixed-point numbers for SMT decoding on mobile terminals in order to reduce the impact of the processors without a floating-point unit on translation speed. The experiments based on PC and mobile terminal show that this approach ensures the quality of translation and the speed of fixed-point arithmetic operations is 135.6% faster than that of floating-point arithmetic operations. Therefore, this approach can efficiently improve translation speed of SMT systems on mobile terminals with weak ability in floating-point arithmetic operations.
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