[Corpora-List] Interlingual Machine Translation Systems (fwd)

[Yorick WIlks]

This reply from Russia is total nonsense, unless "good" means something 
utterly impractical. There are many evaluated MT systems that do a 
reasonable job (i.e. giving a good indication of what a document says) 
and some are available free on search sites as well all know. The 
world's oldest and strongest system SYSTRAN sometimes does a very good 
job. recommending a  20 word MT system shows utter ignorance of the 
last forty years.
Yorick Wilks


On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Sergey Protasov wrote:


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> Eric,

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> There are no good MT systems today at all.

> So there are no good opensource MT systems today.

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> ThoughtTreasure is very big system for teaching and it have bad syntax 

> parser. (It fails, if senstence have more that 7-10 words)

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> I recommend you to see link grammar translator for teaching.

> http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-to-translator.html

> It show very good translations, but It have 20 words in vocab only..

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> You can add more words... But it is not trivial...

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> If you intresting in statistical mashine translation, forget I said 

> before and go to here

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> http://www.isi.edu/licensed-sw/rewrite-decoder/

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> It simple, but you will do not know how it works..

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> -- 

> Sergey Protasov

> PhD student in Computational Linguistics,

> Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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> Eric Atwell wrote:

>> Sergey,

>> do you have any evaluation report or other evidence of how good this 

>> OpenSource MT system is?  Bogdan Babych, researcher here at Leeds,

>> is thinking of developing a demo MT system for research and teaching,

>> but it may be worth considering adapting  an existing oepn-source 

>> system

>> regards

>> Eric Atwell

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