Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: January 22, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780262133807
Subjects: Computational linguistics; Natural language & machine translation; Machine Translation; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computer Science; Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Computers / Computer Science; Linguistic models; Machine translating
Description: "Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledge, because the translation of a text into another language can be viewed as a detailed annotation of what that text means. Knowledge about translational equivalence, which can be gleaned from bitexts, is of central importance for applications such as machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and corpus linguistics.

The availability of bitexts has increased dramatically since the advent of the Web, making their study an exciting new area of research in natural language processing. This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. It is a start-to-finish guide to designing and evaluating many translingual applications."--BOOK JACKET.