Hybrid System Combination for Machine Translation: An Integration of Phrase-level and Sentence-level Combination Approaches Wei-Yun Ma Given the wide range of successful statistical MT approaches that have emerged recently, it would be beneficial to take advantage of their individual strengths and avoid their individual weaknesses. Multi-Engine Machine Translation (MEMT) attempts to do so by ei...

This paper investigates swearing words in Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck as translated into “Sebuah Seni Untuk Bersikap Bodo Amat” by F. Wicaksono. aims to identify the translation strategies and subsequently classify them understandable patterns. Using qualitative approach, this study finds five used translating words: paraphrasing, general words, omission, cultural substitu...

Targeted paraphrasing is a new approach to the problem of obtaining cost-effective, reasonable quality translation that makes use of simple and inexpensive human computations by monolingual speakers in combination with machine translation. The key insight behind the process is that it is possible to spot likely translation errors with only monolingual knowledge of the target language, and it is...

1. ARsTRAm. REMIT Relational Model Interpreter and Translator is a formal query language to natural language interpreter designed to aid query verification in a relational database environment. The system has been developed to work in conjunction with the ICL natural language query interface, NEL, which translates English query expressions into the formal query language QUERYMASTER. Funding for...

In this paper we investigate the automatic collection, generation and evaluation of sentential paraphrases. Valuable sources of paraphrases are news article headlines; they tend to describe the same event in various different ways, and can easily be obtained from the web. We describe a method for generating paraphrases by using a large aligned monolingual corpus of news headlines acquired autom...