Thursday, March 29, 2007

Debabelizing Libraries

SMITH, David A.. Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections. D-Lib Magazine, Mars 2006, Volume 12, Number 3. Available at <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/smith/03smith.html>

Extract:

"(...) Current MT researchers are mostly interested in high precision in chunk and word alignments. They will throw out quite a bit of promising data to ensure that their translation models have the highest accuracy. A digital library application might be more interested in recall. If a translation of some text is already in the library, it is better to spend a little effort finding it than to use the most advanced MT system. Ideally, automatic translation-finding techniques can act as a filter for richer metadata creation. (...)"



Dublin Core Description:

Title: Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections
Creator: SMITH, David A.
Subject: machine translation, library, digital collection, digital library, language technology
Description: Machine translation provides some hope that ever expanding digital collections can also greatly expand their audience. That hope derives, in part, from the ways that massive digital libraries can enrich and change research on machine translation.
Publisher: D-Lib Magazine
Contributor:
Date: 2006-03
Type: article
Format: html
Identifier: URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/smith/03smith.html
Source: D-Lib Magazine, Volune 12, Number 03
Language: English
Relation:
Coverage: International
Rights:
Copyright © 2006 David A. Smith

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