Language related issues for machine translation between closely related south Slavic languages
Popovic, Maja Arcan, Mihael Klubicka, Filip
Popovic, Maja
Arcan, Mihael
Klubicka, Filip
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2016-12-12
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Popovic, Maja, Arcan, Mihael, & Klubicka, Filip. (2016). Language related issues for machine translation between closely related South Slavic languages. Paper presented at the Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial-3), Osaka, Japan, 12 December.
Abstract
Machine translation between closely related languages is less challenging and exhibits a smaller number of translation errors than translation between distant languages, but there are still obstacles which should be addressed in order to improve such systems. This work explores the obstacles for machine translation systems between closely related South Slavic languages, namely Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian. Statistical systems for all language pairs and translation directions are trained using parallel texts from different domains, however mainly on spoken language i.e. subtitles. For translation between Serbian and Croatian, a rule-based system is also explored. It is shown that for all language pairs and for both translation systems, the main obstacles are the differences between syntactic properties.
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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