CHINESE-SPANISH STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION EXPERIMENTS

This article presents some experimental results on Chinese-Spanish machine translation. The implemented translation system is based on the statistical framework and, more specifically, it implements the bilingual ngram approach. Since, as far as we know, no ChineseSpanish parallel corpus is currently available for training purposes, an alternative method for artificially constructing a training corpus is proposed and evaluated. Finally, the obtained translations are compared, in terms of translation quality, with those obtained by using a rule-based translation engine which is available on-line.