Efficient implementation of a semantic-based transfer approach
Michael Dorna, Martin Emele · 1996
. This article gives an overview of a new semantic-based transfer approach developed and applied within the Verbmobil Machine Translation project [22]. We present the declarative transfer formalism and discuss its implementation. The results presented in this paper have been integrated successfully in the Verbmobil system. 1 Introduction The application domain of the Verbmobil Machine Translation (MT) project [16, 22] is spontaneous spoken language in face-to-face dialogs. The scenario is restricted to the task of arranging business meetings, but the approach is intended to be extensible to other topics as well. The languages involved are English, German and Japanese. Apart from linguistic and cognitive research, this project is also a software-engineering challenge. The implementation of the Verbmobil Prototype consists of 25 software modules which are simultaneously under development. This article presents a formalism and a implemention of a transfer approach based on proposals of...