English-Japanese Interactive Translation System: LUTE-AID

We have been developing a series of experimental machine translation systems called LUTE (Language Understander, Translator & Editor) [1] to support the examination of our theoretical work on computational linguistics. Since we are mainly interested in the theoretical aspect of natural language understanding, our objective is not to develop practical systems but to develop fundamental theories applicable to the design of a high ability machine translation system [2]. There is no question, however, that some of these experimental systems may in fact provide practical application to our daily work as tools for manipulating large amounts of linguistic and non-linguistic data as well as for examining such data through programs. We have thus been focusing part of our effort on developing a computer environment we collectively call the Reciprocal Environment for the Study of the Language Understander, Translator & Editor (RESOLUTE) which consists of many facilities for supporting text analysis, dictionary maintenance, and program and knowledge-base development and testing [3],[4].