Abstract / Description of output
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications |
Subtitle of host publication | From Theory to Practice |
Editors | Daniel Bikel, Imed Zitouni |
Publisher | IBM Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-13-704781-9 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-13-715144-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |