> Faced with improper input, would it not make more sense to try and "fix > it" in the source language before translation, rather than distorting > the translation with the induced errors, then trying to fix the > translation ?
That could be an interesting experiment. The transformation one performs on the input to a translation system can profoundly influence its performance. There has been work done on word segmentation, punctuation (of speech output), vocabulary normalization, but it wouldn't be hard to add punctuation to that list. Chris _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
