Abstract By examining and comparing the linguistic patterns in a self-built corpus of Chinese-English translations produced by WeChat Translate , latest online machine translation app from most popular social media platform (WeChat) China, this study explores such questions as whether or not to what extent simplification normalization (hypothesized Translation Universals) exhibit themselves the...

We have evaluated the two-stage machine translation (MT) system. The first stage is a state-of-the-art trial rule-based machine translation system. The second stage is a normal statistical machine translation system. For Japanese-English machine translation, first, we used a Japanese-English rule-based MT, and we obtained "ENGLISH" sentences from Japanese sentences. Second, we used a standard s...

The CAT2 Machine Translation System, developed in Saarbr ucken in 1987, is a natural language application coded entirely in Prolog. Since its initial development, several languages have been implemented on an experimental basis to evaluate the translation methodology, the underlying formalism, the linguistic descriptions, and the e ectiveness of the Prolog implementation. Seven years later, it...

its posterior probability given the training data. This can sometimes be approximated quite well for simple or small models (Xiong et al., 2011; Salakhutdinov and Mnih, 2008), but we would like to approach the performance of the Bayesian gold standard using considerably less computation. We propose to do this by approximating an equally weighted geometric mean of the predictions of an exponenti...

MT has always attracted a good deal of public attention, particularly that of people involved in translation. It has provoked controversies, sometimes very fierce, and unfounded worries among translators and their administrators. This happened partly because people put too much expectation on the possibility of MT. People talked about MT systems or the possibility of MT systems without using th...