Towards an Indonesian-English SMT System : A Case Study of an UnderStudied and Under-Resourced Language

This paper describes a work on preparing an Indonesian-English Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) System. It includes the creation of Indonesian morphological analyzer, MorphInd, and the composing of an Indonesian-English parallel corpus, IDENTIC. We build an SMT system using the state-of-the-art phrase-based SMT system, MOSES. We show several scenarios where the morphological tool is used to incorporate morphological information in the SMT system trained with the composed parallel corpus.

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