Rich Vocabulary

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Lecture 12: Rich Vocabulary
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Examples of Languages with a Rich Vocabulary

German -- compounding

While German has some degree of inflection, it is the Germans' fondness of complex word compounds that causes the large vocabulary problem for MT. Consider the following compound:

Finnish -- agglutination

Czech -- fusional inflection

Large Vocabulary Sizes in MT Pipeline

Word Alignment

Phrase Extraction

Decoding

Evaluation

Possible Solutions