A Matching Technique in Example-Based Machine Translation

Cranias, Lambros; Papageorgiou, Harris; Piperidis, Stelios

A Matching Technique in Example-Based Machine Translation

Authors

Cranias, Lambros

Papageorgiou, Harris

Piperidis, Stelios

Description

This paper addresses an important problem in Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT), namely how to measure similarity between a sentence fragment and a set of stored examples. A new method is proposed that measures similarity according to both surface structure and content. A second contribution is the use of clustering to make retrieval of the best matching example from the database more efficient. Results on a large number of test cases from the CELEX database are presented.
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