An Experiment in Spanish-Portuguese Statistical Machine Translation

Authors:
Wilker Ferreira Aziz;Thiago Alexandre Pardo;Ivandré Paraboni
Affiliations:
University of São Paulo --- USP / ICMC, São Carlos, Brazil 400;University of São Paulo --- USP / ICMC, São Carlos, Brazil 400;University of São Paulo --- USP / EACH, São Paulo, Brazil 1000
Venue:
SBIA '08 Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Statistical approaches to machine translation have long been successfully applied to a number of `distant' language pairs such as English-Arabic and English-Chinese. In this work we describe an experiment in statistical machine translation between two `related' languages: European Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Preliminary results suggest not only that statistical approaches are comparable to a rule-based system, but also that they are more adaptive and take considerably less effort to be developed.