Pangloss: A Machine Translation Project

摘要

The project involves three sites (NMSU, USC, CMU) and is devoted to enhancing the state of the art in machine translation of natural language texts.rnPangloss uses a hybrid, multi-engine approach, though knowledge-based machine translation takes a majority of resources.rnTypes of work in the knowledge-based direction include:rn1. building high-quality syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analyzers for the source languages (Spanish and Japanese);rn2. developing a high-quality text planner and generator for the target language (English);rn3. designing a highly-expressive text meaning representation language (the interlingua) in which the results of analysis and input to generation are recorded;rn4. putting togethera detailed domain model ("ontology") and, for each of the languages involved, a lexicon which maps lexical units of respective languages into elements of the world model and a grammar.