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Disambiguation of English contractions for machine translation of TV subtitles

Volk, Martin; Sennrich, R (2011). Disambiguation of English contractions for machine translation of TV subtitles. In: NODALIDA 2011, Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, Riga, 11 May 2011 - 13 May 2011.

Abstract

This paper presents a disambiguation method for English apostrophe+s contractions. They occur frequently in subtitles and pose special difficulties for Machine Translation. We propose to disambiguate these contractions in a preprocessing step and show that this leads to improved translation quality.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
410 Linguistics
Language:English
Event End Date:13 May 2011
Deposited On:14 Apr 2011 14:28
Last Modified:28 Jun 2022 15:38
OA Status:Green

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