An Experiment in Spanish-Portuguese Statistical Machine Translation

Author(s)

Aziz, Wilker Ferreira ; Salgueiro Pardo, Thiago Alexandre ; Paraboni, Ivandre ; Zaverucha, G ; LoureiroDaCosta, A

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; v. 5249, p. 4-pg., 2008-01-01.

Abstract

Statistical approaches to machine translation have long been successfully applied to a number of 'distant' language pairs such as English-Arabic and English-Chinese. In this work we describe an experiment in statistical machine translation between two 'related' languages: European Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Preliminary results suggest not only that statistical approaches are comparable to a rule-based system, but also they are more adaptive and take considerably less effort to be developed. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 06/03941-7 - Building a parallel corpus annotated with co-reference for machine translation
• Grantee: Ivandre Paraboni
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants