Leading by example: Automatic translation of subtitles via ebmt

Perspectives: Studies in Translatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-184

  Armstrong, Stephen ^a   Andy, Way ^a   Colm, Caffrey ^b   Marian, Flanagan ^b   Dorothy, Kenny ^b   Minako, O'hagan ^b  

^a School of Computing   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corpus creation; EBMT systems; English German; English Japanese; Machine translation; Subtitling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847198337     PISSN: 0907676X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09076760708669036     Document Type: Article

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