Example-Based Machine Translation

Contents:

1. Introduction to EBMT
2. Our Basic EBMT System
3. Generalization
4. Results of Generalizing
5. Automated Generalization
6. Results of Automatic Generalization
7. Word-Level Alignment
8. Statistical Dictionaries
9. Applications of the Component Technologies

Personnel:

• Jaime G. Carbonell (Principal Investigator)
• Ralf D. Brown (Co-PI)

Bibliography:

• Ralf D. Brown, " Example-Based Machine Translation in the Pangloss System". In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), p. 169-174. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 5-9, 1996.
• Ralf D. Brown, " Automated Dictionary Extraction for ``Knowledge-Free'' Example-Based Translation". In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, p. 111-118. Santa Fe, July 23-25, 1997.
• Ralf D. Brown. " Automatically-Extracted Thesauri for Cross-Language IR: When Better is Worse", In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM'98), Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998, pp. 15-21.
• Ralf D. Brown. "Adding Linguistic Knowledge to a Lexical Example-Based Translation System". In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-99), p. 22-32. Chester, England, August 1999.
• Ralf D. Brown. "Automated Generalization of Translation Examples". In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), p. 125-131. Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000.