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This paper investigates the idea of making effective use of bridge language technique to respond to minimal parallel-resource data set bottleneck reality to improve translation quality in the case of Persian-Spanish low-resource language pair using a well-resource language such as English as the bridge one. We apply the optimized direct-bridge combination scenario to enhance the translation performance. We analyze the effects of this scenario on our case study.
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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Dr. Mojtaba Sabbagh-Jafari for his helpful comments.
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Ahmadnia, B., Serrano, J., Haffari, G., Balouchzahi, NM. (2018). Direct-Bridge Combination Scenario for Persian-Spanish Low-Resource Statistical Machine Translation. In: Ustalov, D., Filchenkov, A., Pivovarova, L., Žižka, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language. AINL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 930. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01204-5_7
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