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EsTAL 2004: Advances in Natural Language Processing pp 303–313Cite as

Reuse of Free Online MT Engines to Develop a Meta-system of Multilingual Machine Translation

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We propose a method to develop a meta system of multilingual machine translation by reusing free online automatic translation engines. This system can process and translate a homogeneous or heterogeneous document (multilingual and multicoding). This system’s purpose is to identify the language(s) and the coding(s) of the input text, to segment a heterogeneous text into several homogeneous zones, and to call a better MT engine for the target and source language pair and to retrieve the translated results in the desired language. This system can be used in several different applications, such as multilingual research, translation of the electronic mails, construction of multilingual Web sites, etc.

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  1. Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG 385, rue de la Bibliothèque, 38041 cedex 9, Grenoble, France

    Vo Trung Hung

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  1. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    José Luis Vicedo

  2. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Group, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Patricio Martínez-Barco

  3. Grupo de investigación del Procesamiento del Lenguaje y Sistemas de Información, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Rafael Muńoz

  4. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

    Maximiliano Saiz Noeda

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Hung, V.T. (2004). Reuse of Free Online MT Engines to Develop a Meta-system of Multilingual Machine Translation. In: Vicedo, J.L., Martínez-Barco, P., Muńoz, R., Saiz Noeda, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. EsTAL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30228-5_27

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