Function words in statistical machine-translated Chinese and original Chinese: A study into the translationese of machine translation systems.
Statistical approaches have become the mainstream in machine translation (MT), for their potential in producing less rigid and more natural translations than rule-based approaches. However, on closer examination, the uses of function words between statistical machine-translated Chinese and the origi...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 752 - 772 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2019
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