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19971999
most citedA Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text

20 citations · 30 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL1999★ 1 cited

A Bootstrap Approach to Automatically Generating Lexical Transfer Rules

Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich +1

We describe a method for automatically generating Lexical Transfer Rules (LTRs) from word equivalences using transfer rule templates. Templates are skeletal LTRs, unspecified for w…

cs.CL1999★ 3 cited

Explanation-based Learning for Machine Translation

Janine Toole, Fred Popowich, Devlan Nicholson +2

In this paper we present an application of explanation-based learning (EBL) in the parsing module of a real-time English-Spanish machine translation system designed to translate cl…

cs.CL1999★ 6 cited

A Unified Example-Based and Lexicalist Approach to Machine Translation

Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich +1

We present an approach to Machine Translation that combines the ideas and methodologies of the Example-Based and Lexicalist theoretical frameworks. The approach has been implemente…

cmp-lg1998

Automatically Creating Bilingual Lexicons for Machine Translation from Bilingual Text

Davide Turcato

A method is presented for automatically augmenting the bilingual lexicon of an existing Machine Translation system, by extracting bilingual entries from aligned bilingual text. The…

cmp-lg1997★ 20 cited

A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text

Fred Popowich, Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens +6

Colloquial English (CE) as found in television programs or typical conversations is different than text found in technical manuals, newspapers and books. Phrases tend to be shorter…