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The paper presents interactive multilingual generation, which in most cases is a viable alternative to machine translation and automatic generation. The idea is to automatically produce a preliminary version of the text, and allow the user to modify it in his native language. The software then produces the other languages following the user’s modifications. This technique has been used in an international project and validated in operation on a dozen European sites.
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Coch, J., Chevreau, K. (2001). Interactive Multilingual Generation. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44686-9_26
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