Some Aspects of Shake-and-bake Machine Translation between English and Italian

Shake-and-Bake is an approach to bidirectional and multilingual Machine Translation which takes advantage of the features of lexically-based uniication grammars to design modular systems, where grammars are written on purely monolingual considerations. An extension to the standard Shake-and-Bake model is proposed in order to increase such peculiarities. It consists in introducing in the system a new component, called lexical mapping, which allows one to drop the commitment to morpheme-based morphology and to achieve a more exible treatment of morphological and innectional phenomena. The Attribute Logic Engine formalism (ALE) has been utilized for a partial implementation of an extended Shake-and-Bake system for the English-Italian language pair.