The LogoVista ES translation system

Nan Decker


Abstract
The LogoVista ES translation system translates English text to Spanish. It is a member of LEC’s family of translation tools and uses the same engine as LogoVista EJ. This engine, which has been under development for ten years, is heavily linguistic and rule-based. It includes a very large, highly annotated English dictionary that contains detailed syntactic, semantic and domain information; a binary parser that produces multiple parses for each sentence; a 12,000+-rule, context-free English grammar; and a synthesis file of rules that convert each parsed English structure into a Spanish structure. The main tasks involved in developing a new language pair include the addition of target-language translations to the dictionary and the addition of rules to the synthesis file. The system’s modular design allows the work to be carried out by linguists, independent of engineers.
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2000.amta-systems.5
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Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: System Descriptions
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October 10-14
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2000
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Cuernavaca, Mexico
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AMTA
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Springer
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209–212
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-39965-8_23
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Nan Decker. 2000. The LogoVista ES translation system. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: System Descriptions, pages 209–212, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Springer.
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The LogoVista ES translation system (Decker, AMTA 2000)
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