tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "An Evaluation of METAL: the LRC Machine Translation System"

The Linguistics Research Center (LRC) at the University of Texas at Austin is currently developing METAL, a fully-automatlc high quality machine translation system, for market introduction in 1985. This paper will describe the current stat~s of METAL, e~phasizing the results of the most recent post-edltors' evaluation, and will briefly indicate some future directions for the system. A 6-page German original tex~ and a raw (unedIt~3d, but automatically reformatted) METAL translation of that text into English are included as appendices. ,. | An Evaluation of METAL the LRC Machine Translation System Jonathan Slocum Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. Winfield s. Bennett Lesley Whiffin Edda Norcross Siemens Communication Systems Inc. Abstract Application Environment The Linguistics Research Center LRC at the University of Texas at Austin is currently developing METAL a fully-automatic high quality machine translation system for market introduction In 1985. This paper will describe the current status of METAL emphasizing the results of the most recent post-editors evaluation and will briefly Indicate some future directions for the system A 6-page German original text and a raw unedited but automatically reformatted METAL translation of that text into English are Included as appendices. Introduction The Linguistics Research Center LRC at the University of Texas at Austin Is currently developing METAL a fully-automatic high quality machine translation system for market introduction in 1985. This paper will describe the current status of METAL Including the results of the most recent evaluation and will briefly indicate some future directions for the system. Exhibits A and B attached are respectively a German original text and a raw unedited but automatically reformatted METAL translation of that text into English. History and Status Machine translation research at the University of Texas began In 1956 the LRC was founded in 19617 For much of the history of this project funding was provided by the . Air Force s Rome Air Development Center and other . government agencies. In 1979 Siemens AG began funding the development phase of the METAL machine translation system at which point implementation of the current system was initiated. A prototype has recently been delivered to the sponsor for market testing. The current system Is a unidirectional German-English system although work to add other target languages as well as creating an English-German MT system is now underway. The present staff for