Abstract
For efficiency reasons, Machine Translation systems are generally designed to eliminate ambiguities as early as possible even if delaying the decision would make a more informed choice possible. This paper takes the contrary view, arguing that essentially all choices should be deferred so that large numbers of competing translations will be produced in typical cases. Representing all the data structures in a suitable packed form, much as alternative structures are represented in a chart parser, makes this practicable.- Anthology ID:
- 1999.mtsummit-1.2
- Volume:
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII
- Month:
- September 13-17
- Year:
- 1999
- Address:
- Singapore, Singapore
- Venue:
- MTSummit
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- 9–14
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1999.mtsummit-1.2
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Martin Kay. 1999. Chart translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, pages 9–14, Singapore, Singapore.
- Cite (Informal):
- Chart translation (Kay, MTSummit 1999)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/1999.mtsummit-1.2.pdf