UTX 1.11, a Simple and Open User Dictionary/Terminology Standard, and its Effectiveness with Multiple MT Systems

We have formulated a dictionary/glossary format UTX 1.11 and released it in May 2011. UTX 1.11 is a simple format that is friendly to both computers and humans. UTX dictionaries can be used not only as machinereadable dictionaries for rule-based machine translation (MT) systems, but also for computer-aided translation by human translators. The initial objective of UTXSimple 1.00, released in 2008, was to improve the accuracy of various MT systems by specifying a common format. A key feature of its latest version UTX 1.11 is a term management mechanism by introducing four term statuses ("provisional," "forbidden," "approved," and "non-standard"). We show that a UTX 1.11-based dictionary originally created as a glossary is highly effective for improving the accuracy of MT. UTX can be widely and successfully applied in various fields with specialized terminology, such as localization, open source, education, administration, medicine, and law.