PECAT: a computer-aided translation tool based on bilingual corpora
Le Sun, Yibo Zhang, Junlin Zhang, Yufang Sun · 2002
With the widespread use of computers in translation work and daily life, there are more and more bilingual corpora becoming available. In this paper, the PECAT (Pilot English-Chinese Computer-Aided Translation) system, based on bilingual corpora, is described. There are mainly three modules in our system: a corpus-processing module, a sentence-matching module and a post-editing module. In order to increase the coverage of input source sentences, the text alignment in the corpus-processing module is based on the chunk level. The matching algorithm of input sentences and source sentences is a three-layer edit-distance algorithm guided by the user, which includes information about word morphology and part-of-speech (POS). Preliminary experiments show promising results.