Purest ever example-based machine translation: Detailed presentation and assessment

Machine Translation

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 251-282

  Lepage, Yves ^a,b   Denoual, Etienne ^a,c  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Divergences across languages; Example based machine translation; Proportional analogies

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; GLOSSARIES;

DIVERGENCES ACROSS LANGUAGES; EXAMPLE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION; PROPORTIONAL ANALOGIES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 33847301037     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-006-9010-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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