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The innovative feature of the system presented in this paper is the use of pattern-matching techniques to retrieve translations resulting in a flexible, language-independent approach, which employs a limited amount of explicit a priori linguistic knowledge. Furthermore, while all state-of-the-art corpus-based approaches to Machine Translation (MT) rely on bitexts, this system relies on extensive target language monolingual corpora. The translation process distinguishes three phases: 1) pre-processing with ‘light’ rule and statisticsbased NLP techniques 2) search & retrieval, 3) synthesising. At Phase 1, the source language sentence is mapped onto a lemma-to-lemma translated string. This string then forms the input to the search algorithm, which retrieves similar sentences from the corpus (Phase 2). This retrieval process is performed iteratively at increasing levels of detail, until the best match is detected. The best retrieved sentence is sent to the synthesising algorithm (Phase 3), which handles phenomena such as agreement.
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Tambouratzis, G., Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O., Markantonatou, S. (2006). Pattern Matching-Based System for Machine Translation (MT). In: Antoniou, G., Potamias, G., Spyropoulos, C., Plexousakis, D. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SETN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752912_35
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