Automatic linguistic knowledge acquisition for web-based translation and language learning

  • Authors:
  • Werner Winiwarter

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new approach for the automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge for machine translation based on parallel corpora and bilingual lexica. We have implemented a first prototype of a Web-based Japanese-English translation system called JETCAT and built a Fire-fox extension to analyze Japanese Web pages and translate sentences via Ajax. In addition, we visualize lexical and translation knowledge to offer a useful tool for Web-based language learning. Finally, the user can simply correct translation results and update the knowledge base resulting in a fully customizable personal translation assistant.