Overcoming statistical machine translation limitations: error analysis and proposed solutions for the Catalan-Spanish language pair.

This work aims to improve an N-gram-based statistical machine translation system between the Catalan and Spanish languages, trained with an aligned Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus consisting of 1.7 million sentences taken from El Periódico newspaper. Starting from a linguistic error analysis above t...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 181 - 209
Autores principales: Farrús, Mireia, Costa-jussà, Marta, Mariño, José, Poch, Marc, Hernández, Adolfo, Henríquez, Carlos, Fonollosa, José
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Publicado: Springer Nature May2011
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          Poch, Marc
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        Machine translating
        Error analysis in foreign language education
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        Grammatical categories
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