Contributed Papers
A Novel Approach to Computer-Assisted Translation Based on Finite-State Transducers
Jorge Civera1, Juan M. Vilar2, Elsa Cubel1, Antonio L. Lagarda1, Sergio Barrachina2, Francisco Casacuberta1 and Enrique Vidal1
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Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática,
E-46071 València, Email: tt2iti@iti.upv.es, Spain |
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Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universitat Jaume I, E-12071 Castellón de la Plana, Spain |
Abstract
Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) is an alternative approach to Machine Translation, that integrates human expertise into
the automatic translation process. In this framework, a human translator interacts with a translation system that dynamically
offers a list of translations that best completes the part of the sentence already translated. Stochastic finite-state transducer
technology is proposed to support this CAT system. The system was assessed on two real tasks of different complexity in several
languages.
This work has been supported by the European Union under the IST Programme (IST-2001-32091) and the Spanish project TIC2003-08681-C02.