Lexical morphology in machine translation: a feasibility study

Authors:
Bruno Cartoni
Affiliations:
University of Geneva
Venue:
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a feasibility study for implementing lexical morphology principles in a machine translation system in order to solve unknown words. Multilingual symbolic treatment of word-formation is seducing but requires an in-depth analysis of every step that has to be performed. The construction of a prototype is firstly presented, highlighting the methodological issues of such approach. Secondly, an evaluation is performed on a large set of data, showing the benefits and the limits of such approach.