Bootstrapping machine translation for the language pair English-Kiswahili
Guy De Pauw, P.W. Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2008
increasing availability of parallel corpora.Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words and phrases are translated from a source language into a target language.To investigate this, a parallel corpus is typically aligned by linking linguistic tokens in the source language to the corresponding units in the target language.An aligned parallel corpus therefore facilitates the automatic development of a machine translation system.In this paper, we describe data collection and annotation efforts and preliminary experiments with a parallel corpus English -Kiswahili.