An Experimental Japanese Interface to a Systemic Grammar for Generation of English Auxiliary Verbs

The paper describes an experimental graphical hu-man/computer interface. It shows a new approach to machine translation for monolinguals, which supports interactive foreign-language generation and post-editing. By making functional choices using bilingual menus, Japanese users can interactively generate short English sentences containing complex auxiliary verb groups like \might have done", \ought not to be doing". The generated sentences can also be revised under the control of the interface. The functional choices are speciied by a sys-temic grammar of the target language. The bene-ts of using an interactive, functional approach in machine translation are discussed.