Machine translation

Machine translation

The process of translating text from one language to another using computers instead of human translators.

Industry: Translation & localization

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evaluation process

Translation & localization; Machine translation

The evaluation process uses a translation model of components created in the training process and configured with the tuning process to translate several thousand source language sentences in the ...

hierarchical model

Translation & localization; Machine translation

SMT translation model that uses hierarchical training corpus.

hierarchical training data

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A training corpus with each phrase annotated with the hierarchical structure of the language, such as parts of speech, word function, etc.

language model

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A “language model” or “lm” is a statistical description of one language that includes the frequencies of token-based n-grams occurrences in a corpus. The “lm” is trained from a large monolingual ...

Language model files contain statistical data generated by one of various programs. Moses Decoder can use language model file types including: KenLM SRILM, RandLM and IRSTLM. SRILM, RandLM and IRSTLM ...

moses configuration file

Translation & localization; Machine translation

The moses configuration file is a text file created during the tuning process. The file contains the paths to the phrase table(s), reordering table, language model(s) with other codes and numeric ...

MT post editing

Translation & localization; Machine translation

MT post editing is the process to improve a machine-generated translation by fixing grammar mistakes, incorrect terminology, mistranslation, wrong word order, or syntax errors. It's an important step ...