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This paper presents some problems involved in the machine translation of proper names (PNs) from English into Vietnamese. Based on the building of an English-Vietnamese parallel corpus of texts with numerous PNs extracted from online BBC News and translated by four machine translation (MT) systems, we implement the PN error classification and analysis. Some pre-processing solutions for reducing and limiting errors are also proposed and tested with a manually annotated corpus in order to significantly improve the MT quality.
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Phan, T.T.T., Thomas, I. (2012). English-Vietnamese Machine Translation of Proper Names. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_47
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