Automatic linguistic knowledge acquisition for web-based translation and language learning
Werner Winiwarter · 2010
In this paper we present a new approach for the automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge for machine translation based on parallel corpora and bilingual lexica. We have implemented a first prototype of a Web-based Japanese-English translation system called JETCAT and built a Fire-fox extension to analyze Japanese Web pages and translate sentences via Ajax. In addition, we visualize lexical and translation knowledge to offer a useful tool for Web-based language learning. Finally, the user can simply correct translation results and update the knowledge base resulting in a fully customizable personal translation assistant.