TrAva–atoolforevaluatingMachineTranslation.pptVIP

TrAva – a tool for evaluating Machine Translation – pedagogical and research possibilities Belinda Maia, Diana Santos, Luís Sarmento Anabela Barreiro - Linguateca Why MT Matters Social reasons Political reasons Commercial importance ?? Scientific and philosophical interest Useful bibliography ARNOLD, D, BALKAN, L., LEE HUMPHREYS, R. Lee, MEIJER, S., SADLER, S. (1994) Machine Translation - An Introductory guide. Manchester Oxford : NCC Blackwell. ISBN 1-85554-217-X - or at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/MTbook/.?? COLE, Ron (ed) 1996 Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology Chapter 8 - Multilinguality, at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon.? /HLTsurvey/ch8node2.html#Chapter8 MELBY, Alan K. 1995, The Possibility of Language: A discussion of the Nature of Language, with implications for Human and Machine Translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Machine Translation (MT) – a few dates 1947 Warren Weaver - his ideas led to heavy investment in MT? 1959 Bar-Hillel - considers FAHQMT - FULLY AUTOMATIC HIGH QUALITY MACHINE TRANSLATION philosophically impossible 1964 ALPAC Report - on limitations of MT withdrawal of funds late 1970s the CEC purchase of SYSTRAN and beginning of EUROTRA project. Upward trend in the 1970s and 1980s Today: MT technology - high-end versus low-end systems MT and the Internet MT architectures – Arnold et al Direct architecture - simple grammatical rules + a large lexical and phrasal database Transfer architecture - more complex grammar with an underlying approach of transformational-generative theory + considerable research into comparative linguistics in the two languages involved? Interlingua architecture - L1 a neutral language (real, artificial, logical, mathematical..) L2 Major Methods, Techniques and Approaches today Statistical vs. Linguistic MT assimilation tasks: lower quality, broad domains – statistical techniques predominate dissemination tasks: higher qu