@inproceedings{li-etal-1999-portuguese,
    title = "{P}ortuguese-{C}hinese machine translation in {M}acao",
    author = "Li, Yi-Pmg  and
      Pun, Chi-Man  and
      Wu, Fei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII",
    month = sep # " 13-17",
    year = "1999",
    address = "Singapore, Singapore",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/1999.mtsummit-1.35/",
    pages = "236--243",
    abstract = "There have been substantial changes in computing practices in the cyberspace, mainly as a result of the proliferation of low priced under-utilized powerfully heterogeneous computers are connected by high-speed links. In this paper we reminisce the vicissitude of computing platform and introduce our Portuguese-Chinese corpus-based machine translation (CBMT) system which employs a statistical approach with automatic bilingual alignment support. Our improved algorithm for aligning bilingual parallel texts can achieve 97{\%} of accuracy. At the same time, we broach the ``distributed translation computing'' concept to construct a uniform distributed shared-object technical term retrieving workstation and achieve high computing performance balance of network where heterogeneous computers inherently root and are intermittently under-utilized. Whereby it, we can expedite to retrieve technical terms from noisy bilingual web text and build up the Portuguese-Chinese corpus-base."
}