Multilingual grammar resources in multilingual application development
Marianne Santaholma · 2008
Grammar development makes up a large part of the multilingual rule-based application development cycle.One way to decrease the required grammar development efforts is to base the systems on multilingual grammar resources.This paper presents a detailed description of a parametrization mechanism used for building multilingual grammar rules.We show how these rules, which had originally been designed and developed for typologically different languages (English, Japanese and Finnish) are applied to a new language (Greek).The developed shared grammar system has been implemented for a domain specific speech-to-speech translation application.A majority of these rules (54%) are shared amongst the four languages, 75% of the rules are shared for at least two languages.The main benefit of the described approach is shorter development cycles for new system languages.