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Example-based machine translation: a review and commentary

Machine Translation volume 19, pages 197–211 (2005)Cite this article

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In the last decade the dominant models of MT have been data-driven or corpus-based. Of the two main trends, statistical machine translation and example-based machine translation (EBMT), the latter is much less clearly defined. In a review of the recently published collection edited by Michael Carl and Andy Way, this essay surveys the basic processes, methods, main problems and tasks of EBMT, and attempts to provide a definition of the essence of EBMT in comparison with statistical MT and traditional rule-based MT.

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Recent Advances in Example-based Machine Translation. Edited by Michael Carl and Andy Way. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xxxi, 482pp. (Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol. 21) ISBN: 1-4020-1400-7 (hardback), 1-4020-1401-5 (paperback).

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Hutchins, J. Example-based machine translation: a review and commentary. Machine Translation 19, 197–211 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-006-9003-9

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  • Statistical machine translation
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