ILustrate: a MT Developers’ Tool with a Two-Component View of the Interlingua

TitleILustrate: a MT Developers’ Tool with a Two-Component View of the Interlingua
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsDorr BJ, Voss CR
Conference Namein Proceedings of the First AMTA Conference. Columbia MD
Date Published1994///
Abstract

The interlingua (IL) in machine translation (MT) systems can be defined in terms of two components: (i) "lexical IL forms " within language-specific lexicons where each lexical entry has associated with it one or more lexical representations, and (ii) algorithms for creating and decomposing the instantiated "pivot " representation. Within this framework, we examine five different approaches to the level of representation for the lexical IL forms and then discuss a tool, ILustrate, 2 we are building to develop and evaluate different IL representations coupled with their corresponding translation algorithms. 1