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Bootstrapping a Hybrid MT System to a New Language Pair

João António Rodrigues, Nuno Rendeiro, Andreia Querido, Sanja Štajner, António Branco


Abstract
The usual concern when opting for a rule-based or a hybrid machine translation (MT) system is how much effort is required to adapt the system to a different language pair or a new domain. In this paper, we describe a way of adapting an existing hybrid MT system to a new language pair, and show that such a system can outperform a standard phrase-based statistical machine translation system with an average of 10 persons/month of work. This is specifically important in the case of domain-specific MT for which there is not enough parallel data for training a statistical machine translation system.
Anthology ID:
L16-1438
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
Address:
Portorož, Slovenia
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
2762–2765
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1438
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Cite (ACL):
João António Rodrigues, Nuno Rendeiro, Andreia Querido, Sanja Štajner, and António Branco. 2016. Bootstrapping a Hybrid MT System to a New Language Pair. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2762–2765, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
Bootstrapping a Hybrid MT System to a New Language Pair (Rodrigues et al., LREC 2016)
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1438.pdf