Recent advances in example-based machine translation

 

Edited by Michael Carl and Andy Way

 

Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Acadmic Publishers, 2003

[Text, Speech and Language Technology, volume 21]

ISBN: 1-4020-1400-7 (hardback), 1-4020-1401-5 (paperback)

[For copyright reasons, the contents of this volume are not available online; contact the publisher]

[Some papers are revised and expanded versions of papers originally presented at the Workshop on Example-based Machine Translation, MT Summit VIII, 2001]

 

Contents

 

Preface                                                                                                                                                                                                                   vii

Contributing authors                                                                                                                                                                                           xi

Foreword by Makoto Nagao                                                                                                                                                                             xv

Introduction – Michael Carl and Andy Way                                                                                                                                                  xvii

 

Part I: Foundations of EBMT

1. An overview of EBMT – Harold Somers                                                                                                                                                       3

2. What is example-based machine translation? – Davide Turcato and Fred Popowich                                                                        59

3. Example-based machine translation in a controlled environment – Reinhard Schäler, Andy Way and Michael Carl                   83

4. EBMT seen as case-based reasoning – Bróna Collins and Harold Somers                                                                                        115

 

Part II: Run-time approaches to EBMT

5. Formalizing translation memory – Emmanuel Planas and Osamu Furuse                                                                                             157

6. EBMT using DP-matching between word sequences – Eiichiro Sumita                                                                                              189

7. A hybrid rule and example-based method for machine translation – Francis Bond and Satoshi Shirai                                          211

8. EBMT of POS-ragged sentences via inductive learning – Tantely Andriamanankasina, Kenji Araki and Koji Tochinai          225

 

Part III: Template-driven EBMT

9. Learning translation templates from bilingual translation examples – Ilyas Cicekli and H.Altay Güvenir                                      255

10. Clustered transfer rule induction for example-based translation – Ralf D. Brown                                                                              287

11. Translation patterns, linguistic knowledge and complexity in EBMT – Kevin McTait                                                                      307

12. Inducing translation grammars from bracketed alignments – Michael Carl                                                                                        339

 

Part IV: EBMT and derivation trees

13. Extracting translation knowledge from parallel corpora – Kaoru Yamamoto and Yuji Matsumoto                                                 365

14. Finding translation patterns from dependency structures – Hideo Watanabe, Sadao Kurohashi and Eiji Aramaki                 397

15. A best-first alignment algorithm for extraction of transfer mappings – Arul Menezes and Stephen D. Richardson                    421

16. Translating with examples: the LFG-DOT models of translation – Andy Way                                                                                     443

 

Index                                                                                                                                                                                                                      473