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Text prediction is a form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. In recent work it has been shown that simple statistical translation models can be applied within a usermodeling framework to improve translator productivity by over 10% in simulated results. For the sake of efficiency in making real-time predictions, these models ignore the alignment relation between source and target texts. In this paper we introduce a new model that captures fuzzy alignments in a very simple way, and show that it gives modest improvements in predictive performance without significantly increasing the time required to generate predictions.
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Foster, G., Langlais, P., Lapalme, G. (2002). Text Prediction with Fuzzy Alignments. In: Richardson, S.D. (eds) Machine Translation: From Research to Real Users. AMTA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45820-4_5
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