Investigating the possibility of a microprocessor-based machine translation system

Authors:
Harold L. Somers
Affiliations:
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, England
Venue:
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
1983

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Computational Linguistics - Special issue on machine translation

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Abstract

This paper describes an on-going research project being carried out by staff and students at the Centre for Computational Linguistics to examine the feasibility of Machine Translation (MT) in a microprocessor environment. The system incorporates as far as possible features of large-scale MT systems that have proved desirable or effective: it is multilingual, algorithms and data are strictly separated, and the system is highly modular. Problems of terminological polysemy and syntactic complexity are reduced via the notions of controlled vocabulary and restricted syntax. Given these constraints, it seems feasible to achieve translation via an 'interlingua', avoiding any language-pair oriented 'transfer' stage. The paper concentrates on a description of the separate modules in the translation process as they are currently envisaged, and details some of the problems specific to the microprocessor-based approach to MT that have so far come to light.