Developing an Open-Source FST Grammar for Verb Chain Transfer in a Spanish-Basque MT System
Aingeru Mayor, Mans Hulden, Gorka Labaka · Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing · 2012
This paper presents the current status of development of a finite state transducer grammar for the verbal-chain transfer module in Matxin, a Rule Based Machine Translation system between Spanish and Basque. Due to the distance between Spanish and Basque, the verbal-chain transfer is a very complex module in the overall system. The grammar is compiled with foma, an open-source finitestate toolkit, and yields a translation execution time of 2000 verb chains/second.