Czech Machine Translation in the project CzechMate

Abstract We present various achievements in statistical machine translation from English, German, Spanish and French into Czech. We discuss specific properties of the individual source languages and describe techniques that exploit these properties and address language-specific errors. Besides the translation proper, we also present our contribution to error analysis.

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