Consistency in Translation Memory Corpora

Corpora in machine translation

In spite of this quote there are many machine translation systems in use today, and more are being made, as the need for translations is seemingly boundless. For instance the contracts, agreements, laws and parliamentary sessions of the EU need to be translated somehow, and even if machine translation as good as human translation is infeasible, as that is what Bar-Hillel was concerned about, ev...

Word Translation Based on Machine Learning Models Using Translation Memory and Corpora

SENSEVAL-2 was held in Spring, 2001. It consisted of several tasks in various languages. In this paper, we describe our system used for one of these tasks: the Japanese translation task. With an accuracy of 63.4%, our system was the third best system in the contest among nine systems developed by seven groups.

Analysing Lexical Consistency in Translation

A number of approaches have been taken to improve lexical consistency in Statistical Machine Translation. However, little has been written on the subject of where and when to encourage consistency. I present an analysis of human authored translations, focussing on words belonging to different parts-of-speech across a number of different genres.

Disposable Corpora as Intelligent Tools in Translation

Corpora in Translation: A Slovene Perspective

This paper reviews the use of corpora in translation practice and translator training, focusing on currently available monolingual and multilingual language resources for Slovene. The first part of the paper briefly outlines the state-of-the-art in corpus linguistics and then introduces publicly available corpora for Slovene, including general and special language corpora as well as several par...