A machine translation system from Japanese into English
Makoto Nagao, Jun'ich Tsujii, K. Mitamura, H. Hirakawa, Masako Kume · 1980
A machine translation system from Japanese into English is described.The system aims at translation of computer manuals, and basically follows to the transfer approach.The design principles of the system are discussed in detail, together with the overall constructions of the system.Especially, the effectiveness of lexicon-based procedures, i.e. lexicon-based analysis, transfer, and synthesis, is emphasized.Most of the linguistic phenomena are treated by using lexical descriptions and lexical rules, instead of by general syntactic rules.Because Japanese and English belong to quite different language families, much more structural transfers are necessary than in other MT systems among European languages.Special cares have been paid for designing the transfer component.Some translation results are also given to illustrate the current abilities of the system.