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Statistical approaches to machine translation have long been successfully applied to a number of ‘distant’ language pairs such as English-Arabic and English-Chinese. In this work we describe an experiment in statistical machine translation between two ‘related’ languages: European Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Preliminary results suggest not only that statistical approaches are comparable to a rule-based system, but also that they are more adaptive and take considerably less effort to be developed.
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Aziz, W.F., Pardo, T.A.S., Paraboni, I. (2008). An Experiment in Spanish-Portuguese Statistical Machine Translation. In: Zaverucha, G., da Costa, A.L. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2008. SBIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88190-2_30
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