Two principles and six techniques for rapid MT development

Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale, Stephen Helmreich, Kavi Mahesh, Evelyne Viegas, Rémi Zajac
1996 Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas  
In this paper we describe a range of techniques used at NMSU CRL for accelerating the development of MT systems. These techniques enable semi-automatic development of a number of components of a multilingual MT system, thereby enabling rapid deployment of MT capabilities in a new language. First, we describe the core multi-engine, multilingual architecture that enables the different techniques to be rapidly integrated to build an MT system. We show how off-the-shelf components were used in this
more » ... architecture for fast development. Then we illustrate a set of techniques for semi-automatic acquisition of static resources: (a) automatic induction of grammars, (b) corpus-based acquisition of bilingual glossaries, and automatic acquisition of semantic lexicons through (c) lexical rules and (d) reversal of analysis lexicons to generation lexicons. Finally we describe an automatic testing environment that enables rapid validation of automatically acquired resources.
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