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- Jan W. Amtrup (1995)
- "Chart-based Incremental Transfer in Machine Translation."
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI '95. pp. 188-195. Leuven, Belgium. July 1995
[PDF, 8 pages]
The transfer stage of a machine translation system for spontaneously spoken language in any case has to work incrementally and time-synchronously to be acceptable within natural dialogue settings. To achieve some of the necessary properties, we start from data structures and algorithms as known from chart parsing. Techniques used in this framework for analysis can be applied to the transfer stage in an MT-system as well. The adaptations and modifications will be explained. Head switching, a prototypical transfer problem, is used as an example to demonstrate how the proposed schema operates and in which way transfer may benefit from working with a chart. An experimental system has been implemented which is able to process the examples listed in this paper.
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