Design and Architecture of 'Anusaaraka'- An Approach to Machine Translation
Amba Kulkarni · 2003
Most research in Machine translation is about having the computers completely bear the load of translating one human language into another. This paper looks at the machine translation problem afresh and observes that there is a need to share the load between man and machine, distinguish ‘reliable’ knowledge from the ‘heuristics’, provide a spectrum of outputs to serve different strata of people, and finally make use of existing resources instead of reinventing the wheel. This paper describes the architecture and design of ‘Anusaaraka’ based on the fundamental premise of sharing the load, resulting in “good enough” results according to the needs of the reader. The architecture differs from the conventional in three major ways: � Reversal in the order of operations as compared to conventional machine translation systems