Erwann THORAVAL & Yves LEPAGE
A feasibility study of analogy-based translation
using the same source and target language
Abstract:A method based on analogy for machine translation is being developed at SLT-NLP. By
now, it is already possible to get translations for some short utterances. So as to
evaluate this new method, two experiments have been proposed. The first one deals
with the evaluation of the analogical equation solver. The evaluation allowed us to
assess the quality of the program: the accuracy is very high (98%) in number of
characters), but the coverage remains to be improved. The second one concerns the
recursivity of the method necessary to increase the coverage.