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An English-to-Turkish Interlingual MT System

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Machine Translation and the Information Soup (AMTA 1998)

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This paper describes the integration of a Turkish generation system with the KANT knowledge-based machine translation system to produce a prototype English-Turkish interlingua-based machine translation system. These two independently constructed systems were successfully integrated within a period of two months, through development of a module which maps KANT interlingua expressions to Turkish syntactic structures. The combined system is able to translate completely and correctly 44 of 52 benchmark sentences in the domain of broadcast news captions. This study is the first known application of knowledge-based machine translation from English to Turkish, and our initial results show promise for future development.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Dilek Zeynep Hakkani, Gökhan Tür & Kemal Oflazer

  2. Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Teruko Mitamura & Eric H. Nyberg

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  1. Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Box 30001 / 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA

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  2. SYSTRAN Inc., 7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300, P.O. Box 907, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA

    Laurie Gerber

  3. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6695, USA

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Hakkani, D.Z., Tür, G., Oflazer, K., Mitamura, T., Nyberg, E.H. (1998). An English-to-Turkish Interlingual MT System. In: Farwell, D., Gerber, L., Hovy, E. (eds) Machine Translation and the Information Soup. AMTA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_8

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