Towards Text-Based Machine Translation.
Jörg Schütz, Bärbel Ripplinger · 1994
The increasing use of world wide networking facilities for international information exchange and service provision demands for specific applications of machine translation (MT) tools which are beyond their traditional tasks. The new areas of application of MT will have to be centered around various human-to-human communication media taking into account the different cultures inherent in natural language. Thus, MT has to aim for cross-cultural communication when being used as an information and service provider between different natural languages on the information super-highways. Most of the information electronically exchanged or accessed deals with a specialized vocabulary (terminology). In this paper we will argue for terminology-based MT and discuss the various knowledge sources, which will also ensure an appropriate basis for text-based MT. We have restricted our work to the domain of telecommunications, in particular that of satellite communication.