Article,
Peeking through the language barrier: the development of a free/open-source gisting system for Basque to English based on apertium.org
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, (2013)
Abstract
The article describes the development of a machine translation system from Basque to English designed for assimilation (gisting) built on the free/opensource rule-based machine translation platform Apertium, and evaluates it preliminarly using a new method based in Cloze tests in which readers are asked to ll out gaps in a reference translation. The results indicate that the availability of the raw translations by a system with a dictionary of about 10,000 entries and about 300 translation rules increase signi cantly the ability of readers to complete the tests successfully.
