Building language resources for a Multi-Engine English-Filipino machine translation system |
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Authors: | Rachel Edita Oñate Roxas Allan Borra Charibeth Ko Cheng Nathalie Rose Lim Ethel Chuajoy Ong Michelle Wendy Tan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Software Technology Department, College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University–Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we present the building of various language resources for a multi-engine bi-directional English-Filipino Machine
Translation (MT) system. Since linguistics information on Philippine languages are available, but as of yet, the focus has
been on theoretical linguistics and little is done on the computational aspects of these languages, attempts are reported
here on the manual construction of these language resources such as the grammar, lexicon, morphological information, and the
corpora which were literally built from almost non-existent digital forms. Due to the inherent difficulties of manual construction,
we also discuss our experiments on various technologies for automatic extraction of these resources to handle the intricacies
of the Filipino language, designed with the intention of using them for the MT system. To implement the different MT engines
and to ensure the improvement of translation quality, other language tools (such as the morphological analyzer and generator,
and the part of speech tagger) were developed. |
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Keywords: | Corpora Language resources Language tools Lexicon Machine translation Morphology |
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