4 papers
A Bootstrap Approach to Automatically Generating Lexical Transfer Rules
Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich +1
We describe a method for automatically generating Lexical Transfer Rules (LTRs) from word equivalences using transfer rule templates. Templates are skeletal LTRs, unspecified for w…
Explanation-based Learning for Machine Translation
Janine Toole, Fred Popowich, Devlan Nicholson +2
In this paper we present an application of explanation-based learning (EBL) in the parsing module of a real-time English-Spanish machine translation system designed to translate cl…
A Unified Example-Based and Lexicalist Approach to Machine Translation
Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich +1
We present an approach to Machine Translation that combines the ideas and methodologies of the Example-Based and Lexicalist theoretical frameworks. The approach has been implemente…
Automatically Creating Bilingual Lexicons for Machine Translation from Bilingual Text
Davide Turcato
A method is presented for automatically augmenting the bilingual lexicon of an existing Machine Translation system, by extracting bilingual entries from aligned bilingual text. The…