Using character overlap to improve language transformation
Publication year
2013Publisher
[S.l.] : Association for Computational Linguistics
In
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, pp. 10-19Related links
Annotation
7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH-2013), 08 augustus 2013
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

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Organization
CLST - Centre for Language and Speech Technology
Communicatie- en informatiewetenschappen
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Bedrijfscommunicatie
Languages used
English (eng)
Book title
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Page start
p. 10
Page end
p. 19
Subject
ADNEXT (Adaptive Information Extraction over Time); Language & Speech Technology; Language in Society; Nederlab; NederlabAbstract
Language transformation can be defined as translating between diachronically distinct language variants. We investigate the transformation of Middle Dutch into Modern Dutch by means of machine translation. We demonstrate that by using character overlap the performance of the machine translation process can be improved for this task.
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