Computer-aided translation tools for Russian. Ukrainian, and English

MT Summit VII Sept. 1999 Computer-Aided Translation Tools for Russian, Ukrainian, and English Dr. Michael S. Blekhman Maryna Andrei Dr. Igor Alexander Vladimir Byezhanova Kursin Backlan Kazakov Petrov President, Lingvistica '98 Lingvist, Program- Program- Program- Vice- Inc. Lingvistica mer, mer, mer, Ling- president, E-mail: 924592@ican.net '98 Inc. Ling- Ling- vistica'98 Polyglossum, Web: vistica vistica Inc. Inc. members.tripod.com ~ling98 '98 Inc. '98 Inc. Abstract The paper presents a new development by Lingvistica ‘98 Inc.: the PG-PARS computer- assisted translation system and a series of professional bidirectional dictionaries. PG-PARS was designed as a Windows 95 and Windows 98 application to support English-Russian-English and English-Ukrainian-English dictionaries. PG- PARS dictionaries are all bidirectional, i.e. they include, for example, both the English-Russian and Russian-English parts. Each part has its alphabetical index of entries displayed on a separate tab in the PG-PARS main window. The word entries are displayed for both parts of the dictionary, and translations of translations can be found easily, which is useful for a professional translator. One of the main peculiarities of PG- PARS is the Smart search mode based on morphological analysis of Slavic and English words looked up in the dictionaries. This is especially beneficial if the user is not a native speaker of Russian and Ukrainian. Another important feature is the Selection option which allows the user to mark a portion of the dictionary entry and paste it into the text. The presentation will show professional applications of the PG-PARS system for translating Russian and English texts. 1 Introduction This paper presents a new development by Lingvistica ‘98 Inc: the PG-PARS machine-aided translation system and a series of professional bidirectional dictionaries. It was our goal to: • develop user-friendly dictionary look-up programs; • compile representative bidirectional dictionaries for two language pairs: Russian and Ukrainian to and from English; • make these translation tools available for professional translators as well as for language students all over the world, either separately or together with the PARS automatic translation systems. PG-PARS was designed as a Windows 95 and Windows 98 application to support English-Russian- English and English-Ukrainian-English dictionaries. Two unique dictionaries have been developed: • The Comprehensive English-Russian Bidirectional Dictionary of the XX Century, and a student-oriented dictionary based on it. • The Comprehensive English-Ukrainian Bidirectional Dictionary of the XX Century, and a student-oriented dictionary based on it. 2 Linguistic aspects As was mentioned above, the present PG-PARS version supports 2 unique bidirectional dictionaries, English-Russian and English-Ukrainian. Besides, a number of specialist dictionaries have been and are being compiled, covering such subject areas as aviation, military, engineering, electronics, medicine, social- political, and others. To compile them, we have used several sources, in particular: • Large English-Russian Dictionary by Prof. Yu.Apresian et al. • PARS MT Social-Political English-Russian- English Dictionary. • PARS as well as printed English-Russian and Russian-English technical dictionaries. • PARS as well as printed Russian-Ukrainian dictionaries. • Numerous modern newspaper texts. When analyzing existing English-Russian and Russian-English terminological dictionaries published in the Soviet Union and Russia within the 1970s-1990s, we …

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