Rapid Development of Translation Tools
Jan W. Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian and Rémi Zajac
Abstract
The Computing Research Laboratory is currently developing technologies
that allow rapid deployment of automatic translation. These
technologies are designed to handle low-density languages for which
resources, be that human informants or data in electronically readable
form, are scarce. All tools are built in an incremental fashion, such
that some simple tools (a bilingual dictionary or a glosser) can be
delivered early in the development to support initial analysis
tasks. More complex applications can be fielded in successive
functional versions. The technology we demonstrate has first been
applied to Persian-English machine translation within the Shiraz
project and is currently extended to cover languages such as Arabic,
Japanese, Korean and others.
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