TR-IT-0037 :January 1994

Pierre-Francois Seri, Yasuhiro Sobashima, Osamu Furuse and Jun Kawai

French Surface Form Generation in Transfer-Driven Machine Translation

Abstract:This report describes French surface form transformations in Transfer-Driven Machine Translation (TDMT). It describes the generation component integrated to the TDMT prototype for translation from Japanese to French. The requirements for French generation are explained in detail with the techniques used to implement them.

Keywords: Transfer-Driven Machine Translation, Surface Form Generation.