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The Origins of the Translator's Workstation
The first proposals for various component tools of what is now called the ‘translator’s workstation’ or ‘workbench’ are traced back to the 1970s and early 1980s in vario...
John Hutchins
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1998
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Bilingual Sentence Alignment: Balancing Robustness and Accuracy
Sentence alignment is the problem of making explicit the relations that exist between the sentences of two texts that are known to be mutual translations. Automatic sentence align...
Michel Simard, Pierre Plamondon
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1998
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A Controlled Skip Parser
Real-world natural language sentences are long and complex, and always contain unexpected grammatical constructions. It even includes noise and ungrammaticality. This paper descri...
Kenji Yamada
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1998
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Translation Differences and Pragmatics-Based MT
: This paper examines differences between two professional translations into English of the same Spanish newspaper article. Among other explanations for these differences, such as ...
Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell
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1998
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Line 'Em Up: Advances in Alignment Technology and their Impact on Translation Support Tools
We present a quantitative evaluation of one well-known word alignment algorithm, as well as an analysis of frequent errors in terms of this model's underlying assumptions. De...
Elliott Macklovitch, Marie-Louise Hannan