A Modular Toolkit for Machine Translation Based on Layered Charts
Jan W. Amtrup, Rémi Zajac · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2000
We present a freely available toolkit for building machine translation systems for a large variety of languages. The toolkit uses standard linguistic data representation based on charts and typed feature structures; A modular open architecture based on standardized interfaces and processing architecture, enabling the addition of external language processing components and the configuration of new applications (plug-and-play); An open library of basic parameterizable language processing components including a morphological finite-state processor, dictionary components, an island chart parser, chart generator, and chart-based transfer engine (for MT systems). It is open-source: the C++ source code is available, and portable: targeted systems are Unix and Windows systems.