Controlled Languages for Machine Translation: State of the Art
Hiroyuki Kaji · 1999
A controlled language is a subset of a natural language with artificially restricted vocabulary, grammar, and style. Texts written in a controlled language are usually less complex and less ambiguous than those written in an uncontrolled language. The use of a controlled language therefore produces better results in machine translation. On the other hand, a controlled language reduces the power of expression and decreases the writing speed. In short, a controlled language brings out the maximum performance of machine translation systems at the cost of the burden on source text authors. So the controlled lan-guage approach is suitable for translation for dissemina-tion of information. And a controlled language becomes more beneficial when texts are translated into multiple target languages.