Basque is both a minority and a highly inflected language with free order of sentence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular Data-Driven MT system which includes different chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sentence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque to English translation experiments, evaluated on a large corpus

(270, 000 sentence pairs). The experimental results show that our system significantly outperforms state-of-the-art

approaches according to several common automatic evaluation metrics

Groves, Declan

Sarasola, Kepa

Stroppa, Nicolas

Way, Andy

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Basque is both a minority and a highly inflected language with free order of sentence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular Data-Driven MT system which includes different chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sentence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque to English translation experiments, evaluated on a large corpus\ud
(270, 000 sentence pairs). The experimental results show that our system significantly outperforms state-of-the-art\ud
approaches according to several common automatic evaluation metrics

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Basque is both a minority and a highly in-flected language with free order of sen-tence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular Data-Driven MT system which includes differ-ent chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sen-tence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque to English transla-tion experiments, evaluated on a large cor-pus (270, 000 sentence pairs). The ex-perimental results show that our system significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches according to several common automatic evaluation metrics. 

Example-based machine translation of the Basque language

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