Machine Translation
Linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation
- Author(s): John Lehrberger and Laurent Bourbeau
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 1988
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027286208
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lis.15
The use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is necessary to resolve the ambiguities that pervade a natural language when words and sentences are viewed in isolation. The problem then is to formalize, in the computer, these aspects of natural language understanding. The authors show how, from a linguistic point of view, one may form some idea of what goes on inside a system's black box, given only the input (original text) and the raw output (translated text before post-editing). Many examples of English/French translation are used to illustrate the principles involved.
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