A modular toolkit for machine translation based on layered charts

  • Authors:
  • Jan W. Amtrup;Rémi Zajac

  • Affiliations:
  • New Mexico State University;New Mexico State University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the COLING-2000 Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures To Build NLP Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present a freely available toolkit for building machine translation systems for a large variety of languages. The toolkit uses standard linguistic data representation based on charts and typed feature structures; A modular open architecture based on standardized interfaces and processing architecture, enabling the addition of external language processing components and the configuration of new applications (plug-and-play); An open library of basic parameterizable language processing components including a morphological finite-state processor, dictionary components, an island chart parser, chart generator, and chart-based transfer engine (for MT systems). It is open-source: the C++ source code is available, and portable: targeted systems are Unix and Windows systems.