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    <abstract>Translation systems tend to have more trouble with long sentences than with short ones for a variety of reasons. When the source and target languages differ rather markedly, as do Japanese and English, this problem is reflected in lower quality output. To improve readability, we experimented with automatically splitting long sentences into shorter ones. This paper outlines the problem, describes the sentence splitting procedure and rules, and provides an evaluation of the results.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length
%A Gerber, Laurie
%A Hovy, Eduard
%Y Farwell, David
%Y Gerber, Laurie
%Y Hovy, Eduard
%S Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
%D 1998
%8 oct 28 31
%I Springer
%C Langhorne, PA, USA
%F gerber-hovy-1998-improving
%X Translation systems tend to have more trouble with long sentences than with short ones for a variety of reasons. When the source and target languages differ rather markedly, as do Japanese and English, this problem is reflected in lower quality output. To improve readability, we experimented with automatically splitting long sentences into shorter ones. This paper outlines the problem, describes the sentence splitting procedure and rules, and provides an evaluation of the results.
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%P 448-460

Markdown (Informal)

[Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_40) (Gerber & Hovy, AMTA 1998)

• Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length (Gerber & Hovy, AMTA 1998)

ACL

• Laurie Gerber and Eduard Hovy. 1998. Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length. In Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 448–460, Langhorne, PA, USA. Springer.