Far-reaching Impact of MMT

Zhendong Dong dzd@keenage.com

CCenter of Computer Language enter of Computer Language Information Engineering, CASInformation Engineering, CAS

www.keenage.com

Panel on MMT MT Summit X

Phuket, Thailand

2005-09

What I wrote in 2000 …

Chinese source text of my article:

在这一时期里，中国参加了由日本发起的亚洲五国机器翻译研发的合作项目。国内近 10 个单位参了这一长达 7 年的国际项目。这次的大协作对于培养人才、传播技术、积累资源（如词典等），以使中国的机译研究走向世界，都有着深远的影响。

English translation by a commercial MT in China (with no post-editing):

During this period, China joined the collaborative projectresearched and developed by the machine translation of the Fivecountries in Asia which Japan initiates. Domestic unit nearly 10 hasparticipated in this 7 -year long international project. The large-scale cooperation this time, for training talents, spread technology, accumulating resources (such as dictionary), and make the machinetranslation of China study and go to the world , all have far-reachinginfluence.

What I wrote recently …

In the late 80s, in Makoto Nagao’s frequent academic visitsto China, I translated for him and learned a great dealfrom his rich experience in building semantic dictionary,especially the principles for semantic classification ofnouns and verbs. From 1987 to 1992 when I was the chieftechnical leader of Chinese team participating in themachine translation project among Japan and other fourAsian countries, I learned quite a lot from various kinds ofMT dictionaries of Japanese IT companies and labs,especially from Japan’s EDR concept dictionary.

A training course of NLP researchers

Fundamental and Comprehensive Dictionary construction (Fujitsu / Toshiba) Text analysis (NEC) Text generation (Hitachi) Input and output systems (Sharp / Oki) Interlingua

A MT laboratory

Dictionary making C programming Technologies covering most of NLP phases

Full-parsing (cf. Partial parsing) Full-phrases (cf. Base-NP)

An accumulation of NLP resources

An incubator of MT industry (1)

Directly-nurtured China National Software & Service Co. Ltd.

-- E=C, C-J products

CCID Chinese Information Processing Labs

-- E=C products

GE-soft Co., Ltd.

-- Multilingual Machine-aided products

Nanjing University

-- J=C products

An incubator of MT industry (2)

Encouraged Huajian Group– China’s biggest MT company

-- Invited speech by Dr. Heyan Huang MT labs, Harbin University of Technology

-- Exhibition Xiamen University Institute of Automation

-- Invited speech by Dr.Bo Xu

An approach to international area of R&D

What we should learn?

The resources and techniques of classical MT is useful; It would be dangerous and harmful to give up them;

Be on the alert to the recently clamor of SMT; Be careful not to depict a new MT beauty to

users (old ugly grandma again in the end!)

Strength of SMT

Strength Aligned resources easy to share Easy and somewhat fast to shift to a new

language pair Easy to accumulate extra-linguistic knowledge

Weakness of SMT

Not so easy to meet wide demands of commercialization;

In the foreseeable future, high-quality translation is also impossible;

Speed and computing power;

Translation quality SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has accepted the

idea of working toward restraint in its missile program, U.S. officials said Tuesday, citing progress on a critical issue dividing the two countries as they explore reconciliation after 50 years. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ended her historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il struck by the improbability of it all -- a cordial visit to a Stalinist land that the United States until recently called a rogue state.

Translation by SMT汉城、韩国、朝鲜已经接受了思想工作的限制 ,

对其导弹计划 , 美国官员说星期二援引进展的关键问题上的分界线 , 探讨两国和解 50 年后 , 美国国务卿奥尔布赖历史性会谈结束后她与朝鲜领导人金正日的 improbability 深刻的印象的是 , 斯大林的友好访问的土地 , 直到最近 , 美国的“无赖国家。

Translation by classical MT

汉城，韩国 -- 北朝鲜已经接受努力达到在它的导弹计划里的抑制的想法， 美国官员说星期二，引用关于分二国家的一关键发行的发展他们在 50 年之后探索和解。 国务卿马德琳 . 奥尔布赖特以金正日以所有人的不大可能留下印象的朝鲜领导人结束她的有历史意义的交谈 -- 对一块斯大林主义者土地的一次诚恳的访问美国直到最近才叫一个流氓国家。

One more interesting example -- probable SMT’s deadly point

Source text:

“我国 运动员…”新加坡体育委员会主任说

Translation by a SMT system:

“The young athletes of China …” said the head of Singapore sports committee.

Technically on MMT

Interlingua is not completely successful Interlingua for vocabulary is not successfully

dealt with in MMT Interlingua in terms of relations among words

is OK, but not sufficient in MMT Interlingua is difficult for multilingual

processing

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