Example-Based Machine Translation of the Basque Language

Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, Andy Way, Kepa Sarasola


Abstract
Basque is both a minority and a highly inflected language with free order of sentence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular Data-Driven MT system which includes different chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sentence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque to English translation experiments, evaluated on a large corpus (270,000 sentence pairs). The experimental results show that our system significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches according to several common automatic evaluation metrics.
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2006.amta-papers.26
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Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
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August 8-12
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2006
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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232–241
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Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, Andy Way, and Kepa Sarasola. 2006. Example-Based Machine Translation of the Basque Language. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 232–241, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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