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In this paper we present an analysis of a phrase-based machine translation methodology that integrates paraphrases obtained from an intermediary language (French) for translations between Spanish and English. The purpose of the research presented in this document is to find out how much extra information (i.e. improvements in translation quality) can be found when using Translation Paraphrases (TPs). In this document we present an extensive statistical analysis to support conclusions.
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Guzmán, F., Garrido, L. (2008). Translation Paraphrases in Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_33
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