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Different machine translation engines can be remarkably dissimilar not only with respect to their technical paradigm, but also with respect to the translation output they yield. System combination is a method for combining the output of multiple machine translation engines in order to take benefit of the strengths of each of the individual engines.
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Freitag et al. (2014) studied this question.