An Italian to Catalan RBMT system reusing data from existing language pairs
Antonio Toral, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Francis Morton Tyers · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) · 2011
This paper presents an Italian! Catalan RBMT system automatically built by combining the linguistic data of the existing pairs Spanish–Catalan and Spanish–Italian. A lightweight manual postprocessing is carried out in order to fix inconsistencies in the automatically derived dictionaries and to add very frequent words that are missing according to a corpus analysis. The system is evaluated on the KDE4 corpus and outperforms Google Translate by approximately ten absolute points in terms of both TER and GTM.