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publications
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada 2000, English, 7 pages, postscript, .ps.gz. Published at AAAI 2000 at Austin, Texas. Current corpus-based machine trtanslation techniques do not work very well when given scarce resources. To examine the gap between human and machine translators, we created an experiment in which human beings were asked to translate an unknown language into English on the sole base of a very small bilingual text. Participants performed quite well, and debriefings revealed a number of valuable strategies. We discuss these strategies and apply some of them to a statistical translation system.
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