An English-Japanese machine translation system based on formal semantics of natural language
Toyoaki Nishida, Shuji Doshita · 1982
This paper proposes a new model of machine translation. In this model, the lambda formula obtained from the syntactic and semantic analysis of a source language sentence is viewed as a target language generating function and the target language sentence is obtained as a result of evaluating the formula by functional application or λ-calculus. This model provides a systematic and powerful way of incorporating human knowledge on the languages. A prototype is constructed on the LISP system. The performance was tested for four sample texts taken from existing technical reports and computer manuals.