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Compositional Translation

By M. T. Rosetta (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1994
ISBN
978-90-481-5797-6, 978-94-015-8306-0
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-8306-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11745063 bytes)
Series
The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 273
Edition
1
Pages
478\484
Time added
2014-01-18 08:00:00
Language Translation and Linguistics; Computationa

Description

This book provides an in-depth review of machine translation by discussing in detail a particular method, called compositional translation, and a particular system, Rosetta, which is based on this method. The Rosetta project is a unique combination of fundamental research and large-scale implementation. The book covers all scientifically interesting results of the project, highlighting the advantages of designing a translation system based on a relation between reversible compositional grammars. The power of the method is illustrated by presenting elegant solutions to a number of well-known translation problems. The most outstanding characteristic of the book is that it provides a firm linguistic foundation for machine translation. For this purpose insights from Montague Grammar are integrated with ideas developed within the Chomskyan tradition, in a computationally feasible framework. Great care has been taken to introduce the basic concepts of the underlying disciplines to the uninitiated reader, which makes the book accessible to a wide audience, including linguists, computer scientists, logicians and translators.

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