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Example-based machine translation of the Basque language

Stroppa, Nicolas, Groves, Declan, Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Sarasola, Kepa (2006) Example-based machine translation of the Basque language. In: AMTA 2006 - 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 8-12 August 2006, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract
Basque is both a minority and a highly inflected language with free order of sentence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular Data-Driven MT system which includes different chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sentence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque to English translation experiments, evaluated on a large corpus (270, 000 sentence pairs). The experimental results show that our system significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches according to several common automatic evaluation metrics.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
Official URL:http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2006-TOC.htm
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology, Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:15821
Deposited On:24 Nov 2010 15:37 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 16 Nov 2018 11:16
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