Generation of Vietnamese for French-Vietnamese and English-Vietnamese machine translation
Doan-Nguyen Hai · 2001
This paper presents the implementation of the Vietnamese generation module in ITS3, a multilingual machine translation (MT) system based on the Government & Binding (GB) theory.Despite well-designed generic mechanisms of the system, it turned out that the task of generating Vietnamese posed non-trivial problems.We therefore had to deviate from the generic code and make new design and implementation in many important cases.By developing corresponding bilingual lexicons, we obtained prototypes of French-Vietnamese and English-Vietnamese MT, the former being the first known prototype of this kind.Our experience suggests that in a principle-based generation system, the parameterized modules, which contain language-specific and lexicalized properties, deserve more attention, and the generic mechanisms should be flexible enough to facilitate the integration of these modules.