Structural Asymmetries in Machine Translation: The case of English-Japanese

Diplôme Thèse Structural Asymmetries in Machine Translation: The case of English-Japanese eng 2013-06-28 author Kauffmann Alexis Joseph Azar 648382 director Wehrli Eric 22217 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:34540 urn:nbn:ch:unige-345405 L. 797 This thesis describes structural differences and translation asymmetries between English and Japanese. It describes possible ways to treat those phenomena in the framework of linguistics-based machine translation. As an application, the adaptibility of the multilingual linguistics-based MT system Its-2 to English-Japanese translation is tested, describing the enhancement of the system and its lexical databases, and the positive effect of using statistically acquired linguistic data. The translation quality of the English-Japanese version of Its-2 is finally compared to these of 2 other MT systems, on a set of 5 chosen sentences, showing strength on some points and weeknesses on others. It is also shown that hierarchical statistical post-editing can improve the overall translation quality of the system for daily language translation when the training corpus is not too small. Machine translation Japanese Japanese syntax Linguistics-based machine translation Statistical post-editing Traduction automatique Japonais Traduction automatique à base linguistique Révision statistique Dewey 410 Dewey 025.063 13 Centre universitaire d'informatique 0D3 82 Département de linguistique 39 false 722 Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Traitement du Langage (LATL) 63f136dd-5f56-4dc7-bcba-3badfdd9faeb Thesis Public These-2_merged.pdf 2922396 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre universitaire d'informatique Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique

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