Chapter 10: Machine Translation

Philipp Koehn

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Machine translation is one of the holy grails of natural language processing. It is a seemingly well-defined task: converting text in one language into another while preserving its meaning. It mirrors a human activity that is done by amateur bilingual speakers and professionals on a daily basis. But at the same time, it is fraught with difficulties so that most researchers do not expect to reach human quality anytime soon. The goal is more modest: producing translations that are good enough or useful.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultilingual Natural Language Processing Applications
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Theory to Practice
EditorsDaniel Bikel, Imed Zitouni
PublisherIBM Press
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-13-704781-9
ISBN (Print)978-0-13-715144-8
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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