Abstract / Description of output
This paper presents a disambiguation method for English apostrophe+s contractions. They occur frequently in subtitles and pose special difficulties for Machine Translation. We propose to disambiguate these contractions in a preprocessing step and show that this leads to improved translation quality.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NODALIDA 2011, Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics |
| Place of Publication | Riga, Latvia |
| Publisher | Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) |
| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2011 |
| Event | The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics - Riga, Latvia Duration: 11 May 2011 → 13 May 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics |
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| Country/Territory | Latvia |
| City | Riga |
| Period | 11/05/11 → 13/05/11 |