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LX-Translator

LX-Translator is a freely available on-line service for translation between Portuguese and Chinese. This service was developed and is maintained at the University of Lisbon by the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics.

Intrinsic evaluation of the model for the directions Portuguese to Chinese and Chinese to Portuguese has BLEU scores of 13.98 and 16.22, respectively, on the first 1000 sentences of the NewsCommentaryV11 Corpus.

Authorship

LX-Translator was developed by Rodrigo Santos and João Silva, under the direction of António Branco, of the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group.

Acknowledgments

The development of LX-Translator was supported by POR Lisboa, under the contract Portugal2020/FEDER/3279 for the project ASSET, and by the exchange project CNPTDeepMT-Chinese/Portuguese Deep Machine Translation in eCommerce Domain, supported by MOST-Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and by FCT-Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology.

Publications

Irrespective of the most recent version of this tool you may use, when mentioning it, please cite this reference:

Santos, Rodrigo, João Silva, António Branco and Deyi Xiong. 2019. "The Direct Path May Not Be The Best: Portuguese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation". In Proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'19).

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Why LX-Translator?

LX because LX is the "code" name Lisboners like to use to refer to their hometown.