Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators

In this paper we present a tool that uses comparable corpora to find appropriate translation equivalents for expressions that are considered by translators as difficult. For a phrase in the source language the tool identifies a range of possible expressions used in similar contexts in target language corpora and presents them to the translator as a list of suggestions. In the paper we discuss the method and present results of human evaluation of the performance of the tool, which highlight its usefulness when dictionary solutions are lacking.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley
• Keywords: ACL 2006, ACL 2007, Appropriate Translation Equivalents, Comparable Corpora, Target Language Corpora