Discovering Machine Translation Strategies Beyond WordforWord Translation: a Laboratory Assignment

the workshop Teaching Machine Translation

计算机科学;语言文字学

Juan Antonio Pe´rez-Ortiz

PID  :  83302

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

It is a common mispreconception to say that machine translation programs translate wordforword, but real systems follow strategies which are much more complex. This paper proposes a laboratory assignment to study the way in which some commercial machine translation programs translate whole sentences and how the translation differs from a wordforword translation. Students are expected to infer some of these extra strategies by observing the outcome of real systems when translating a set of sentences designed on purpose. The assignment also makes students aware of the diffi