Two Experiments in Situated MT
Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg · 2002
More often than not, MT these days is delivered as a component of a comprehensive end-toend NLP application. This paper presents two applications that integrate MT with other NLP processes. The first of the two combines MT with crosslingual information retrieval. The second environment uses MT, together with summarization and information extraction techniques, to generate monolingual (English) documents based on information extracted from documents in various languages. In particular, this application generates a time-stamped list of events connected to a particular person. One of the key factors in the document assembly process is the assignment of absolute dates to each sentence produced by the system. Both applications use a general purpose computational architecture that centers on an annotated document collection.