Two Case Studies on Translating Pronouns in a Deep Syntax Framework
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We focus on improving the translation of the English pronoun it and English reflexive pronouns in an English-Czech syntaxbased machine translation framework. Our evaluation both from intrinsic and extrinsic perspective shows that adding specialized syntactic and coreference-related features leads to an improvement in translation quality.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013