Year: 1987
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The paper discusses a recent extension of the linguistic framework of the Rosetta system.The original framework is elegant and has proved its value in practice, but it also has a number of deficiencies, of which the most salient is the impossibility to assign an explicit structure to the grammars.This may cause problems, especially in a situation where large grammars have to be written by a group of people.The newly developed framework enables us to divide a grammar into subgrammars in a linguistically motivated way and to control explicitly the application of rules in a subgrammar.On the other hand it enables us to divide the set of grammar rules into rule classes in such a way that we get hold of the more difficult translation relations.The use of both these divisions naturally leads to a highly modular structure of the system, which helps in controlling its complexity.We will show that these divisions also give insight into a class of difficult translation problems in which there is a mismatch of categories.
Institutions: Philips (Netherlands), Signify (Netherlands)
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2058905911