Idiosyncratic Gap: A Tough Problem to Structure-bound Machine Translation

Current practical machine translation systems (MT, in s h o r t ) , which a r e d e s i g n e d t o d e a l w i t h a h u g e a m o u n t o f d o c u m e n t , a r e g e n e r a l ] y s t r u c t u r e b o u n d . T h a t i s , t h e t r a n s l a t i o n p r o c e s s i s d o n e b a s e d on t i l e analysis and transformation of the structure of source sentence, not on the understanding and paraphrasing of the meaning of that. But each language has its own :~yntactic and semantic idiosyncrasy, and on this account, without understanding the total meaning of source sentences it is often difficult for MT to bridge properly the idiosyncratic gap between source~ and targetlanguage. A somewhat new method called "Cross Translation Test (CTT, in short)" is presented that reveals the detail of idiosyncratic gap (IG, in short) together with the so-so satisfiable possibility of MT. It is also mentioned the usefulness olf sublanguage approach to reducing the IC between sourceand targetlanguage.