Improving Spanish MT output with pre-editing guideline

Abstract

According to a report published by the Instituto Cervantes in 2010, Spanish is spoken by more than 450 million people worldwide. It is spoken on the five continents and is the official language of 19 Latin American countries, Spain and Equatorial Guinea. Also, it is the second most common language in the United States. This geographical diversity gives rise to wide dialectal differences on the lexical, syntactical, morphological and phonological levels as can be seen in Table 1.An international audience calls for standard usage of the language. Researchers agree that differences among all Spanish varieties diminish greatly in a formal register of the language, which is the language as used by the media and academia.