wEBMT: Developing and Validating an Example-Based Machine Translation System Using the World Wide Web

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 421-457

  Way, Andy ^a,b   Gough, Nano ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b School of Computing   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EXAMPLE BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; POST-EDITING; RULE BASED; TRANSLATION PAIR; TRANSLATION PROCESS; TREEBANKS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0345016957     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120103322711596     Document Type: Review

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