Benefits
The most frequently cited benefits of statistical machine translation over rule-based approach are:
- Better use of resources
- There is a great deal of natural language in machine-readable format.
- Generally, SMT systems are not tailored to any specific pair of languages.
- Rule-based translation systems require the manual development of linguistic rules, which can be costly, and which often do not generalize to other languages.
- More natural translations
- Rule-based translation systems are likely to result in Literal translation. While it appears that SMT should avoid this problem and result in natural translations, this is negated by the fact that using statistical matching to translate rather than a dictionary/grammar rules approach can often result in text that include apparently nonsensical and obvious errors.
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