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<Paper uid="P01-1050">
  <Title>Towards a Unified Approach to Memoryand Statistical-Based Machine Translation</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a set of algorithms that enable us to translate natural language sentences by exploiting both a translation memory and a statistical-based translation model. Our results show that an automatically derived translation memory can be used within a statistical framework to often find translations of higher probability than those found using solely a statistical model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The translations produced using both the translation memory and the statistical model are significantly better than translations produced by two commercial systems: our hybrid system translated perfectly 58% of the 505 sentences in a test collection, while the commercial systems translated perfectly only 40-42% of them.</Paragraph>
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