Normalizing Non-canonical Turkish Texts Using Machine Translation Approaches (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | a study using non-canonical text normalization shows that it can surpass the current best performing system by a large margin. |
| Approach: | They propose a fully automated, context-aware machine translation approach with fewer stages of processing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach surpasses the current best-performing system by a large margin . the proposed method is more data-hungry and more data sensitive than other methods . |
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