An analysis of Indonesian language for interlingual machine-translation system
Hammam R. Yusuf · 1992
This paper presents BlAS (Bahasa Indonesia Analyzer System), an analysis systemfor lndonesian language suitable for multilingual machine translation system.BIAS is developed with a motivation to contribute to on-going cooperative research project in machine translation between Indonesia andotherAsian countries.In addition,it mayserve tofosterNLPresearchinIndonesia.It startwith an overviewofvarious methodologiesforrepresenta lion of linguistic knowledg e atwlplausible strategies of automatic r easoningf or lndonesian language.We examine these methodoiogies from the perspective of their relative advantage and their suitabilityforaninterlingualmochine-translation environment.BIAS is a multi-level analyzer which is developed not only to extract the syntactic and semantic structure of sentences but also to provide a unifying method for knowledge reasoning.Each phase of the analyzer is discussed with emphasis on Indonesian morphology andcase-grammaticalconstructians.