Kentaro Ogura


2001

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Design and construction of a machine-tractable Japanese-Malay dictionary
Francis Bond | Ruhaida Binti Sulong | Takefumi Yamazaki | Kentaro Ogura
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII

We present a method for combining two bilingual dictionaries to make a third, using one language as a pivot. In this case we combine a Japanese-English dictionary with a Malay-English dictionary, to produce a Japanese-Malay dictionary suitable for use in a machine translation system. Our method differs from previous methods in its use of semantic classes to rank translation equivalents: word pairs with compatible semantic classes are preferred to those with dissimilar classes. We also experiment with the use of two pivot languages. We have made a prototype dictionary of over 75,000 pairs.

1999

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ALT-J/M a prototype Japanese-to-Malay translation system
Kentaro Ogura | Francis Bond | Yoshifumi Ooyama
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII

In this report we introduce ALT-J/M: a prototype Japanese-to-Malay translation system. The system is a semantic transfer based system that uses the same translation engine as ALT-J/E, a Japanese-to-English system.

1997

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Temporal expressions in Japanese-to-English machine translation
Francis Bond | Kentaro Ogura | Hajime Uchino
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

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English adverb processing in Japanese-to-English machine translation
Kentaro Ogura | Satoshi Shirai | Francis Bond
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

1996

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Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation
Francis Bond | Kentaro Ogura | Satoru Ikehara
COLING 1996 Volume 1: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1995

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Noun Phrase Reference in Japanese to English Machine Translation
Francis Bond | Kentaro Ogura | Tsukasa Kawaoka
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

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A Method for Automatically Adapting an MT System to Different Domains
Setsuo Yamada | Hiromi Nakaiwa | Kentaro Ogura | Satoru Ikehara
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

1994

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Countability and Number in Japanese to English Machine Translation
Francis Bond | Kentaro Ogura | Satoru Ikehara
COLING 1994 Volume 1: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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English Adverb Generation in Japanese to English Machine Translation
Kentaro Ogura | Francis Bond | Satoru Ikehara
Fourth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing