Mining a comparable text corpus for a Vietnamese - French statistical machine translation system
Thi-Ngoc-Diep Do, Viet-Bac Le, Brigitte Bigi, Laurent Besacier, Eric Castelli · 2009
This paper presents our first attempt at constructing a Vietnamese-French statistical machine translation system. Since Vietnamese is an under-resourced language, we concentrate on building a large Vietnamese-French parallel corpus. A document alignment method based on publication date, special words and sentence alignment result is proposed. The paper also presents an application of the obtained parallel corpus to the construction of a Vietnamese-French statistical machine translation system, where the use of different units for Vietnamese (syllables, words, or their combinations) is discussed.