Abstract
YSTRAN has demonstrated success in the MT field with its long history spanning nearly 30 years. As a general-purpose fully automatic MT system, SYSTRAN employs a transfer approach. Among its several components, large, carefully encoded, high-quality dictionaries are critical to SYSTRAN's translation capability. A total of over 2.4 million words and expressions are now encoded in the dictionaries for twelve source language systems (30 language pairs - one per year!). SYSTRAN'S dictionaries, along with its parsers, transfer modules, and generators, have been tested on huge amounts of text, and contain large terminology databases covering various domains and detailed linguistic rules. Using these resources, SYSTRAN MT systems have successfully served practical translation needs for nearly 30 years, and built a reputation in the MT world for their large, mature dictionaries. This paper describes various aspects of SYSTRAN MT dictionary development as an important part of the development and refinement of SYSTRAN MT systems. There are 4 major sections: 1) Role and Importance of Dictionaries in the SYSTRAN Paradigm describes the importance of coverage and depth in the dictionaries; 2) Dictionary Structure discusses the specifics of dictionary structure and types of information represented; 3) Dictionary Creation and Update describes the strategy and mechanics of the dictionary development; 4) Past. Present and Future Development provides some perspective on where SYSTRAN has come from and where it is going.- Anthology ID:
- 1997.mtsummit-papers.19
- Volume:
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Papers
- Month:
- October 29 – November 1
- Year:
- 1997
- Address:
- San Diego, California
- Editors:
- Virginia Teller, Beth Sundheim
- Venue:
- MTSummit
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- 211–218
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1997.mtsummit-papers.19
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Laurie Gerber and Jin Yang. 1997. SYSTRAN MT Dictionary Development. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Papers, pages 211–218, San Diego, California.
- Cite (Informal):
- SYSTRAN MT Dictionary Development (Gerber & Yang, MTSummit 1997)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/1997.mtsummit-papers.19.pdf