Apertium: A free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-144

  Forcada, Mikel L ^a   Ginestí Rosell, Mireia ^a   Nordfalk, Jacob ^b   O’Regan, Jim ^c   Ortiz Rojas, Sergio ^d   Pérez Ortiz, Juan Antonio ^a   Sánchez Martínez, Felipe ^a   Ramírez Sánchez, Gema ^d   Tyers, Francis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Eolaistriu Technologies   (Ireland)

^d Avenida de La Universidad S n   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apertium; Finite state transducers; Free open source machine translation; Rule based machine translation; Shallow transfer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

APERTIUM; FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; RULE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SHALLOW TRANSFER;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 80054821273     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-011-9090-0     Document Type: Article

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