Universal grammar and lexis for quick ramp-up of MT systems
Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin · 1998
This paper introduces Boas, a semi-automatic knowledge elicitation system that guides a team of two people through the process of developing the static knowledge sources for a moderate-quality, broad-coverage MT system from any "low-density" language into English in about six months.The paper focuses on some issues in the elicitation of descriptive knowledge in Boas and also the issue of the principled reuse of pre-existing resources, such as a lexicon, an ontology, and an English generation module, among others, made possible by the fact that the client MT system is developed for a single target language.