MT for Minority Languages Using Elicitation-Based Learning of Syntactic Transfer Rules

The AVENUE project contains a run-time machine translationprogram that is surrounded by pre- and post-run-time modules. Thepost-run-time module selects among translation alternatives. Thepre-run-time modules are concerned with elicitation of data andautomatic learning of transfer rules in order to facilitate thedevelopment of machine translation between a language with extensiveresources for natural language processing and a language with fewresources for natural language processing. This paper describes therun-time transfer-based machine translation system as well as two ofthe pre-run-time modules: elicitation of data from the minoritylanguage and automated learning of transfer rules from theelicited data.