LANGUAGE CORPORA AS A RESOURCE FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
Keywords:
corpora, language resources, representativeness, balance, samplingAbstract
The article discusses the importance of linguistic corpora in both statistical and neural machine translation. It explains that these models require large, representative parallel corpora to capture language phenomena and determine translation probabilities between source and target languages. Corpus linguistics, the field dedicated to creating and structuring such corpora, is essential for developing linguistic resources that can support language learning, lexicography, and linguistic analysis.
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