What Can a Translation Machine Do in Translating Abbreviations in Source Language Text into Target Language Text?

Machine Translation without a source text

Tiffs lmper concerns an approach to Machine Translation whieJJ differs from the typical 'standard' approaches crucially in.that it does not rely on the prior existence of a source text as a basis of the translation. Our approach can be characterised as an 'intelligent secretary with knowledge of the foreign language', which helps monolingual users to formulate the desired target-language text i...

A New Hybrid Machine Translation Approach Using Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Only Target Text Corpora

Parallel corpora play a vital role in Statistical Machine Translation. Nonavailability of these corpora is a major barrier for adding new languages pairs. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid approach for English-French machine translation combining a cross-language search engine and a statistical language model trained from a monolingual corpus. The cross-language search engine returns the t...

Language Model Adaptation with Additional Text Generated by Machine Translation

A Multi-Path Architecture for Machine Translation of English Text into American Sign Language Animation

The translation of English text into American Sign Language (ASL) animation tests the limits of traditional MT architectural designs. A new semantic representation is proposed that uses virtual reality 3D scene modeling software to produce spatially complex ASL phenomena called “classifier predicates.” The model acts as an interlingua within a new multi-pathway MT architecture design that also ...

Using same-language machine translation to create alternative target sequences for text-to-speech synthesis

Modern speech synthesis systems attempt to produce speech utterances from an open domain of words. In some situations, the synthesiser will not have the appropriate units to pronounce some words or phrases accurately but it still must attempt to pronounce them. This paper presents a hybrid machine translation and unit selection speech synthesis system. The machine translation system was trained...