Analysing Lexical Consistency in Translation
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چکیده
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.
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