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We describe OpenMaTrEx, a free/open-source example-based machine translation (EBMT) system based on the marker hypothesis, comprising a marker-driven chunker, a collection of chunk aligners, and two engines: one based on a simple proof-of-concept monotone EBMT recombinator and a Moses-based statistical decoder. OpenMaTrEx is a free/open-source release of the basic components of MaTrEx, the Dublin City University machine translation system.
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Dandapat, S., Forcada, M.L., Groves, D., Penkale, S., Tinsley, J., Way, A. (2010). OpenMaTrEx: A Free/Open-Source Marker-Driven Example-Based Machine Translation System. In: Loftsson, H., Rögnvaldsson, E., Helgadóttir, S. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. NLP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6233. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14770-8_15
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