1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of a Machine Traustation System or the Basis of "Meanig From Theory"
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07808039
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent informatics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
HOSOYA Yukiteru Osaka University, Faculty Language and Culture, assistant professor, 言語文化部, 助教授 (90116096)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Keywords | Machine Translation / Meaning From Theory / Translation |
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| Research Abstract |
Though the pioneers of "machine translation" put in a lot of effort, the results have not been up to the demands of practical usage. The reason appears to be that linguistic findings have not been used sufficiently, especially those in the field of the semantics of translation. From a practical point of view it is impossible to create good machine translation without programming the techniques and linguistic intuition of qualified translators.
So far I have been mainly concerned with the analysis of translation techniques and linguistic intuitions of German native speakers by using the "meaning from theory" as virtually the only method for analysis of linguistic intuition. I applied the results of these investigations to this project, "Development of a machine translation system on the basis of 'meaning form theory'" and achieved a better translation system.
To mention a technical result from the project, I have developed a "point sorting" technique by which it is possible to list German words including the German special characters (e.g. "Umlaut" ) in alphabetical order. The best way to assess the quality of my machine translation system is to run the software I developed for this system.
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