An experience on statistical machine translation between Spanish and the regional languages of Spain

Abstract

Statistical machine translation systems between Spanish and other regional languages from Spain has become an interest of research during the last decade. However, regional languages are usually characterized by the lack of linguistic resources necessary to build such systems. This paper describes the development of three statistical machine translation systems between Spanish and three other languages: Galician, Catalan and Basque, focusing on the corpora used and the techniques applied in order to improve their performance.