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AbstractThis paper reports the current situation of the machine translation (MT) market in Japan, based on a survey conducted through questionnaires and interviews. The research targets three groups: MT manufacturers (including sales agents), professional translators and translation agencies, and general users. We completed the questionnaire on the first group and …...

AbstractThis report introduces the current situation of machine translation in Korea. Recently, the need for further developing machine translation has been generally recognized. Although a few machine translation softwares for Korean have been released on the market, they do not sufficiently meet the need of users. As a result, the …...

AbstractWork in the area of Machine Translation has been going on for several decades and it was only during the early 90s that a promising translation technology began to emerge with advanced researches in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. This held the promise of successfully developing usable …...

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to clarify certain technological aspects of the localization business process. An introduction to the Translation Memory (TM) technology is provided, followed by an analysis of how TM and Machine Translation (MT), when used together, can increase productivity in software localization workflow applications. A special …...

AbstractWe examine two North American case studies, each of which illustrates a different strategy for coming to terms with high-volume, high-quality translation. The first eschews MT in favour of translation memory technology; the second employs a controlled language to simplify the input to an MT system. Both strategies betray a …...

AbstractThe present paper deals with several recurrent issues in the design and implementation of controlled language checkers. It is based on market analysis and on LANT’s experience in building and customizing controlled language checkers....

AbstractAt the last MT Summit conference this century, this paper looks back briefly at what has happened in the 50 years since MT began, reviews the present situation, and speculates on what the future may bring. Progress in the basic processes of computerized translation has not been as dramatic as …...

AbstractThe recent rapid spread of the Internet suggests that soon everybody on earth will be able to communicate freely with each other across national borders. The 21st century will be the age of multilingualism and multiculturalism, when various languages and cultures are dynamically exchanged on a global scale. One may …...

AbstractFor efficiency reasons, Machine Translation systems are generally designed to eliminate ambiguities as early as possible even if delaying the decision would make a more informed choice possible. This paper takes the contrary view, arguing that essentially all choices should be deferred so that large numbers of competing translations will …...

AbstractThis survey of the situation regarding the R&D of machine translation in China concentrates on how the design and application of MT systems could be on the shadow of the characteristics of Chinese Language. After a brief historical overview and the investigation on R&D environment, some technical features are described, …...

In this paper, a novel method for the selection of synthesis unit is proposed. The monosyllables are adopted as the basic synthesis units. A set of high-quality synthesis units is selected from a large continuous speech database based on four procedures: pitch period detection and smoothing, speech unit filtering, unit …...

Particles fullfill several distinct central roles in the Japanese language. They can mark arguments as well as adjuncts, can be functional or have semantic funtions. There is, however, no straightforward matching from particles to functions, as, e.g., ga can mark the subject, the object or an adjunct of a sentence. …...

Bilingual or Multilingual speech recognition gradually becomes an attractive research topic because bilingual writings appear almost everywhere in present day. In this paper, we propose a continuous word-based speech recognition system to dictate the Mandarin and Japanese speech simultaneously. We find that there are about 62 basic phoneme like units(PLUs) …...

Anaphora,. an important indicator in lexical cohesion, is a discourse level linguistic phenomenon. Most theoretical linguistic approaches to the interpretation of anaphoric expressions propose a treatment on the basis of purely syntactic information. In this article, what we proposed is to cast anaphora resolution as a semantic inference process in …...

This paper describes a method for searching word correspondences between pairs of translation sen- tences. In the Example-Based Machine Translation, translation patterns can be extracted easily if word correspondences between pair of translation sentences are defined. The popular methods for aligning bilingual corpus at a sub-sentential level are unable to …...

Recently, many machine translation systems have been developed. However, for translation of conversation, correct translation rates and quality of translation are particularly low. This is due to machine translation systems not being able to generate translation results which fit the context of the conversation . We previously proposed a method …...

The telephone directory retrieval task requires high-speed partial matching, and many processes run concurrently so there is a need to reduce resource requirements such as CPU power. To real- ize the high-speed partial matching that satisfies these requirements, this paper proposes a method for generating supplementary index records. This method …...

A large number of simple sentences are needed to construct practical Case frames automatically. Until now, most studies have assumed that there are already extensive training data (especially here simple sentences) and linguistic information for their work. However, this is not true at least of Korean. Furthermore, Korean syntactic structures …...

This paper offers a method for determining referent (antecedent) of the noun phrase containing determiner "kono (this)" or "sono (that, its)" in Japanese. It uses in the determination of the antecedent a statistical measure of conceptual similarities, taken from a corpus, between each candidate for the antecedent and the modeficand …...

It is well known that direct parsing of a long Japanese compound sentence is extremely difficult. Various pre-processing methods have been proposed to segment such a sentence into shorter, simpler ones prior to parsing. The problem with the conventional methods is that some kind of segmentation patterns or heuristic preference …...