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Example-based controlled translation

Gough, Nano and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2004) Example-based controlled translation. In: EAMT-04 - 9th Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation, 26-27 April 2004, Valetta, Malta.

Abstract
The first research on integrating controlled language data in an Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system was published in [Gough & Way, 2003]. We improve on their sub-sentential alignment algorithm to populate the system’s databases with more than six times as many potentially useful fragments. Together with two simple novel improvements—correcting mistranslations in the lexicon, and allowing multiple translations in the lexicon—translation quality improves considerably when target language translations are constrained. We also develop the first EBMT system which attempts to filter the source language data using controlled language specifications. We provide detailed automatic and human evaluations of a number of experiments carried out to test the quality of the system. We observe that our system outperforms Logomedia in a number of tests. Finally, despite conflicting results from different automatic evaluation metrics, we observe a preference for controlling the source data rather than the target translations.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:example-based machine translation;
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Official URL:http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/EAMT04/index.html
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:15306
Deposited On:15 Mar 2010 13:46 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 16 Nov 2018 11:54
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