The technical analysis on translation templates

There have been many researches on translation templates. Translation templates are the generalization of the bilingual aligned examples, and are bilingual translation pair in which the corresponding words stems, morphemes, words, strings of words, or phrases may be replaced by variables. This work reviews the various research efforts about translation templates, brings forward three methods of templates acquisition, introduces the main process of template-based machine translation, analyzes the related techniques that need to effectively solved, sums up the research actuality of translation templates, analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of templates technology, and deduces future enhancements for translation templates.