EXPLOITING STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES IN MACHINE TRANSLATION

Authors
DYVIK H
Citation
H. Dyvik, EXPLOITING STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES IN MACHINE TRANSLATION, Computers and the humanities, 28(4-5), 1995, pp. 225-234
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Art & Humanities General","Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
Computers and the humanities → ACNP
ISSN journal
00104817
Volume
28
Issue
4-5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
225 - 234
Database
ISI
SICI code
0010-4817(1995)28:4-5<225:ESSIMT>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The central properties of an experimental system for machine translati on, PONS, and the ideas behind them, are presented and motivated. PONS achieves a compromise between linguistic sophistication and efficienc y by automatically exploiting structural similarities between source a nd target language in order to take ''shortcuts'' during the translati on process. The system uses a PATR-type linguistic formalism to encode LFG-type grammatical descriptions and Situation Semantics-type semant ic descriptions, and it is implemented in Medley Interlisp.