<s>
Example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
(	O
EBMT	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
a	O
method	O
of	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
often	O
characterized	O
by	O
its	O
use	O
of	O
a	O
bilingual	O
corpus	O
with	O
parallel	O
texts	O
as	O
its	O
main	O
knowledge	O
base	O
at	O
run-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
foundation	O
of	O
example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
idea	O
of	O
translation	O
by	O
analogy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
principle	O
of	O
translation	O
by	O
analogy	O
is	O
encoded	O
to	O
example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
through	O
the	O
example	O
translations	O
that	O
are	O
used	O
to	O
train	O
such	O
a	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
approaches	O
to	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
including	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
,	O
also	O
use	O
bilingual	O
corpora	O
to	O
learn	O
the	O
process	O
of	O
translation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
was	O
first	O
suggested	O
by	O
Makoto	O
Nagao	O
in	O
1984	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
case	O
,	O
one	O
sentence	O
can	O
be	O
translated	O
into	O
several	O
well-structured	O
sentences	O
in	O
another	O
language	O
,	O
therefore	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
no	O
use	O
to	O
do	O
the	O
deep	O
linguistic	O
analysis	O
characteristic	O
of	O
rule-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
systems	O
are	O
trained	O
from	O
bilingual	O
parallel	O
corpora	O
containing	O
sentence	O
pairs	O
like	O
the	O
example	O
shown	O
in	O
the	O
table	O
above	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
an	O
example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
system	O
would	O
learn	O
three	O
units	O
of	O
translation	O
from	O
the	O
above	O
example	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Example-based	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
is	O
best	O
suited	O
for	O
sub-language	O
phenomena	O
like	O
phrasal	O
verbs	O
.	O
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