From parallel grammar development towards machine translation – a project overview
Anette Frank · 1999
We give an overview of a MT research project jointly undertaken by Xerox PARC and XRCE Grenoble. The project builds on insights and resources in large-scale development of parallel LFG grammars. The research approach towards translation focuses on innovative computational technologies which lead to a flexible translation architecture. Efficient processing of "packed" ambiguities not only enables ambiguity preserving transfer. It is at the heart of a flexible architectural design, open for various extensions which take the right decisions at the right time. 1 Introduction Most of the existing high-performance MT systems are based on linguistic technology of the 60s, whereas research in NLP has established "higher-level" syntactic formalisms which allow for specification and processing of declarative, reversible grammars that assign rich structures to natural language sentences. Syntactic theories like Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar ...