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Jan W. Amtrup (1997)

Perspectives for Incremental MT with Charts.
In Christa Hauenschild and Susanne Heizmann (eds.), Machine Translation and Translation Theory. Perspectives of Co-operation. Text, Translation, Computational Processing (TTCP), number 1.Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the use of incremental techniques for machine translation, with a bias on transfer and the adaptation of mechanisms for incremental processing that are already being used for other aspects of the language understanding process. Obviously, human speech comprehension works in an incremental way. Informally this means that a device starts working on subparts of the problem input and that it even produces partial results before the input is complete. This piecemeal fashion of work takes place on a variety of levels and has strong influences on the abilities humans have.