Analysis of Machine Translation Systems’ Errors in Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Qing Ma, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Hitoshi Isahara · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2005
Errors of the translation of tense, aspect, and modality by machine translation systems were analyzed for six translation systems on the market and our new systems for translating tense, aspect, and modality.The results showed that our systems outperformed the other systems.They also showed that the other systems often produced progressive forms rather than the correct present forms.Our systems rarely made this mistake.Translation systems on the market could thus be improved by incorporating the methods used in our systems.Moreover, error analysis of the translation systems on the market identified information that would be useful for improving them.