Dealing With Incompleteness Of Linguistic Knowledge In Language Translation - Transfer And Generation Stage Of MU Machine Translation Project

Therefore the linguistic contents of machine translation system always fluctuate, and make gradual progress. The system should be designed to allow such constant change and improvements. This paper explains the details of the transfer and generation stages of Japanese-to-English system of the machine translation project by the Japanese Government, with the emphasis on the ideas to deal with the incompleteness of linguistic knowledge for machine translation.