%0 Conference Proceedings %T Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation %A Koehn, Philipp %A Senellart, Jean %Y Zhechev, Ventsislav %S Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry %D 2010 %8 nov 4 %I Association for Machine Translation in the Americas %C Denver, Colorado, USA %F koehn-senellart-2010-convergence %X We present two methods that merge ideas from statistical machine translation (SMT) and translation memories (TM). We use a TM to retrieve matches for source segments, and replace the mismatched parts with instructions to an SMT system to fill in the gap. We show that for fuzzy matches of over 70%, one method outperforms both SMT and TM baselines. %U https://aclanthology.org/2010.jec-1.4 %P 21-32