Formalizing translation memories

Emmanuel Planas, Osamu Furuse


Abstract
The TELA structure, a set of layered and linked lattices, and the notion of Similarity between TELA structures, based on the Edit Distance, are introduced in order to formalize Translation Memories (TM). We show how this approach leads to a real gain in recall and precision, and allows extending TM towards rudimentary, yet useful Example-Based Machine Translation that we call Shallow Translation.
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1999.mtsummit-1.48
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII
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September 13-17
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1999
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Singapore, Singapore
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331–339
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Emmanuel Planas and Osamu Furuse. 1999. Formalizing translation memories. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, pages 331–339, Singapore, Singapore.
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