Term-rewriting as a basis for a uniform architecture in machine translation

  • Authors:
  • Wilhelm Weisweber

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Berlin, Berlin

  • Venue:
  • COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

In machine translation (MT) different levels of representation can be used to translate a source language sentence onto its target language equivalent. These levels have to be related to each other. This paper describes a declarative formalism on the basis of term-rewriting which maps one representation onto an equivalent adjacent one. The different levels (e.g. represented by derivational trees, feature structures or expressions of a knowledge representation language) can be represented as terms. The equivalences between them are stated as axioms which are directed to form a non-confluent and terminating term-rewrite system. A complete and coherent algorithm has been developed which interprets these systems and is able to handle default rules.