Rapid development and deployment of bi-directional expert systems using machine translation technology

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1375-1380

  Shaalan, Khaled ^a,b   Hendam, Ashraf ^c   Rafea, Ahmed ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^c TEUES   (Egypt)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agriculture expert systems; Bilingual expert systems; Domain knowledge translation; Transfer based machine translation approach

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; BI-DIRECTIONAL; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; RAPID DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; INFORMATION THEORY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 81855207551     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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