Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation

Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information ret

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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME21

Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France

The titles published in this series are listed at the end oi this volurne.

Recenti\dvancesin Example-Based Machine Translation Edited by

Michae1 CarI Institut der Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Informationsforschung e. V. an der Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbriicken, Germany

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AndyWay School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4020-1401-7 ISBN 978-94-010-0181-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0181-6

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Contents

Preface

vii

Contributing Authors Foreword

xi xv

Introduction Michael Garl and Andy Way

xvii

Part I Foundations of EBMT 1 An Overview of EBMT Harold Somers

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What is Example-Based Machine Translation? Davide Turcato and Fred Popowich 3 Example-Based Machine Translation in a Controlled Environment Reinhard Schäler, Andy Way and Michael Garl

4 EBMT Seen as Case-based Reasoning Brona Gollins and Harold Somers

59

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115

Part II Run-time Approaches to EBMT 5 Formalizing Translation Memory Emmanuel Planas and Osamu Furuse

157

6 EBMT Using DP-Matching Between Word Sequences Eiichiro Sumita

189

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REGENT ADVANGES IN EBMT

7 A Hybrid Rule and Example-Based Method for Machine Translation Francis Bond and Satoshi Shirai

211

8 EBMT of POS-Tagged Sentences via Inductive Learning Tantely Andriamanankasina, Kenji Araki and Koji Tochinai

225

Part III Template-Driven EBMT 9

Learning Translation Templates from Bilingual Translation Examples flyas Gicekli and H. Altay Güvenir

255

10 Clustered Transfer Rule Induction for Example-Based Translation Ralf D. Brown

287

11 Translation Patterns, Linguistic Knowledge and Complexity in EBMT K evin M c Tait

307

12 Inducing Translation Grammars from Bracketed Alignments Michael Garl

339

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