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Machine translation
The process of translating text from one language to another using computers instead of human translators.
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Machine translation
training data
Translation & localization; Machine translation
Linguistic texts used to train the MT engine for better quality output for specific subject fields.
training process
Translation & localization; Machine translation
Training is a process in the machine learning branch of artificial intelligence field. In the training process, a system “learns” the relationships between parallel data. In SMT, the source language ...
translation memory
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A translation memory (tm) is parallel data that was collected for the purpose of aiding future translations.
translation model
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A “translation model” consists of one or more phrase tables, zero or more reordering tables, one or more language models and one moses configuration file that were created during the training and ...
tuning process
Translation & localization; Machine translation
Tuning is a process that finds the optimized configuration file settings for a translation model when used a specific purpose. The tuning process translates thousands of source language phrases in ...
tuning set
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A pair of source and target language data, typically containing several thousands of pairs used in the tuning process.
word aligner
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A word aligner is a program that created word alignment files during the word alignment process. Moses currently supports these word aligners: GIZA++, MGIZA++, and BerkeleyAligner.
