MAT: A Machine Assisted Translation System

摘要

This paper describes MAT-a machine assisted translation system that was developed by the author for the Government of Karnataka, a southern state in India. MAT is used for translating English texts into Kannada, the official language of Karnataka. MAT is a parser based translation aid, ideally suited for translating between positional languages like English and Indian languages, which are characterized by a relatively free word order and a very rich system of morphology. MAT is based on the UCSG (Universal Clause Structure Grammar) theory of syntactic analysis developed by the author. This paper starts with a very brief introduction to parsing in UCSG and then goes on to describe the structure of the MAT system in detail. Current performance of the MAT system, transcripts from the system and plans for further work are given in conclusion.