462 Machine Translation Systems for Europe
Published 26 August 2009
Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch, Ralf Steinberger
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This work built 462 machine translation systems for all language pairs of the Acquis Communautaire corpus, and compares them against pivot translation and a number of system combination methods that are possible due to the available systems.
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We built 462 machine translation systems for all language pairs of the Acquis Communautaire corpus. We report and analyse the performance of these system, and compare them against pivot translation and a number of system combination methods (multi-pivot, multisource) that are possible due to the available systems.
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