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Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation

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This survey chapter provides an overview of the recent research in hybrid Machine Translation (MT). The main MT paradigms are sketched and their integration at different levels of depth is described starting with system combination techniques and followed by integration strategies led by rule-based and statistical systems. System combination does not involve any hybrid architecture since it combines translation outputs. It can be done with different granularities that include sentence, sub-sentential and graph-levels. When considering a deeper integration, architectures guided by the rule-based approach introduce statistics to enrich resources, modules or the backbone of the system. Architectures guided by the statistical approach include rules in pre-/post-processing or at a inner level which means including rules or dictionaries in the core system. This chapter overviewing hybrid MT puts in context, introduces, and motivates the subsequent chapters that constitute this book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://mt-archive.info

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    http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openmt.cfm

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    http://www.statmt.org/

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    http://www.dfki.de/ml4hmt, http://www.eamt.org/news/news_cfp_ml4hmt.php

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    http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/lihmt2011/

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    http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra/hytra.php

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    http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra2013/

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    http://parles.upf.edu/llocs/plambert/hytra/hytra2014/

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    http://www.systransoft.com

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    http://www.apertium.org

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    http://www.lucysoftware.com/

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    http://www.statmt.org/wmt11/

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This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad project TACARDI (TIN2012-38523-C02-00) and contract TEC2015-69266-P, and the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission through the International Outgoing Fellowship Marie Curie Action (IMTraP-2011-29951).

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