Recycling Lingware in a Multilingual MT System

1997/05/07 by Manny Rayner, Rayner, Manny, David Carter +19 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Speech and dialogue systems #cmp-lg #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9705007

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arxiv created 1997/05/07 · openalex publication_date 1997/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We describe two methods relevant to multi-lingual machine translation systems, which can be used to port linguistic data (grammars, lexicons and transfer rules) between systems used for processing related languages. The methods are fully implemented within the Spoken Language Translator system, and were used to create versions of the system for two new language pairs using only a month of expert effort.

Citations

• Adapting the Core Language Engine to French and Spanish
• Hybrid Transfer in an English-French Spoken Language Translator
• Hybrid language processing in the Spoken Language Translator

Cited by

• AFRIKAANS AND DUTCH AS CLOSELY-RELATED LANGUAGES: A COMPARISON TO WEST GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND DUTCH DIALECTS

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