Construction of a hierarchical translation memory

  • Authors:
  • S. Vogel;H. Ney

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Technology, Aachen, Germany;University of Technology, Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Translation memories are promising devices for automatic translation. Their main weakness, however, is poor coverage on unseen text. In this paper, the use of a hierarchical translation memory, consisting of a cascade of finite state transducers, is proposed. A number of transducers is applied to convert sentence pairs from a bilingual corpus into translation patterns, which are then used as a translation memory. Preliminary results on the German English VERBMOBIL corpus are given.