Czech-English Machine Translation Dictionary

We are proposing a format for translation dictionaries suitable for machine translation. The dictionary format is concise and generalizes phrases by introducing rules for morphological generation instead of using simple phrase to phrase mapping. We describe a simple way how to automatically construct our compact entries from a machine-readable dictionary originally intended for human users using parallel corpora. We further describe how to expand the compact dictionary entries to phrase table dictionary that can be used further on by machine translation systems (until the systems will support morphological generation from a translation dictionary natively). We performed manual annotation of a small set of entries to analyze problems of this approach.