Oepen, S., H. Dyvik, J. T. Lønning, E. Velldal, D. Beermann, J. Carroll, D. Flickinger, L. Hellan, J. B. Johannessen, P. Meurer, T. Nordgård and V. Rosén (2004) `Som å kapp-ete med trollet? Towards MRS-based Norwegian-English machine translation'. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Baltimore, MD.
We present a relatively large-scale initiative in high-quality MT based on semantic transfer, reviewing the motivation for this approach, general architecture and components involved, and preliminary experience from a first round of system integration (to be accompanied by a hands-on system demonstration, if appropriate).
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