tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Sentence-For-Sentence Translation: An Example"

A computer program for the mechanical translation into English of an infinite subset of the set of all Arabic sentences has been written and tested. This program is patterned after Victor H. Yngve's framework for syntactic translation. | Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics vol. 8 No. 2 February 1965 Sentence-For-Sentence Translation An Example by Arnold C. Satterthwait Computing Center Washington State University A computer program for the mechanical translation into English of an infinite subset of the set of all Arabic sentences has been written and tested. This program is patterned after Victor H. Yngve s framework for syntactic translation. The paper presents a generalized technique for thorough syntactic parsing of sentences by the immediate constituent method a generalized structural transfer routine and a consideration of the elements which must be included in a statement of structural equivalence with examples drawn from such a statement and the accompanying bilingual dictionary. Yngve s mechanism for the production of sentences is expanded by the introduction of a stimulator which brings stimuli external to the mechanism into effective participation in the construction of specifiers for the production of sentences. The paper includes a discussion of the requirement that a basic vocabulary for the output sentence be selected in the mechanical translation process before the specifier of that sentence is constructed. The procedure for the morphological parsing of Arabic words is also presented. The paper ends with a brief discussion of ambiguity. Introduction The research discussed in this paper has resulted in the preparation of a working computer program which is the first example of sentence-for-sentence mechanical translation applying Victor Yngve s process. Of this process Yngve has written Translation is conceived of as a three-step process recognition of the structure of the incoming text in terms of a structural specifier transfer of this specifier into a structural specifier in the other language and construction to order of the output text Yngve s process requires a grammar of the input language and a recognition routine a statement of structural .