Bi-directional memory-based dialog translation: The KEMDT approach

Keywords: dialog translation, memory (example)-based translation, parallel marker passing, Korean language processing A bi-directional Korean/English dialog translation system is designed and implemented using the memory-based translation technique. The system KEMDT (Korean/English Memory-based Dialog Translation system) can perform Korean to English, and English to Korean translation using uniied memory network and extended marker passing algorithm. We resolve the word order variation and frequent word omission problems in Korean by classifying the concept sequence element in four diierent types and extending the marker-passing-based-translation algorithm. Unlike the previous memory-based translation systems, the KEMDT system develops the bilingual memory network and the uniied bi-directional marker passing translation algorithm. For eecient language speciic processing, we separate the morphological processors from the memory-based translator. The KEMDT technology provides a hierarchical memory network and an eecient marker-based control for the recent example-based MT paradigm.