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| Title: | Hybrid Data Driven MT: Integrating EBMT and SMT |  |
| Duration: | October 1st 2003 -- September 30th 2006 | |
| Funded by: | IRCSET's Embark Initiative | |
| People: | Declan Groves, Andy Way | |
| Description: | Almost all research in MT being carried out today is corpus-based. The two main data-driven approaches are that of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT), with SMT being by far the more dominant of the two. | |
| SMT provides us with an empirical-based, language independant and robust approach to the problem of translation, and with the advent of more sophisticated phrase-based approaches, it is possible to achieve high-quality translation. However, statistical approaches have inherent limitations due to their lack of linguistic knowledge. Most SMT systems do not encorporate any explicit syntax, unlike EBMT which makes use of syntax at its core. EBMT has always made use of both phrasal and lexical correspondences to produce high-quality translations. | ||
| This work focuses on merging elements of EBMT and SMT with a view to producing a hybrid data-driven EBMT-SMT system which combines the advantages of both systems to produce highly-accurate, syntactically well-formed translations without a significant loss in coverage. | ||
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