a bilingual corpus is considered as a very important knowledge source and an inevitable requirement for many natural language processing (nlp) applications in which two languages are involved. for some languages such as persian, lack of such resources is much more significant. several applications, including statistical and example-based machine translation needs bilingual corpora, in which lar...

We present a novel automatic approach to constructing a bilingual semantic network—the BiFrameNet, to enhance statistical and transfer-based machine translation systems. BiFrameNet is a frame semantic representation, and contains semantic structure transfers between English and Chinese. The English FrameNet and the Chinese HowNet provide us with two different views of the semantic distribution ...

In the “Sandglass” MT architecture, we identify the class of monosemous Japanese functional expressions and utilize it in the task of translating Japanese functional expressions into English. We employ the semantic equivalence classes of a recently compiled large scale hierarchical lexicon of Japanese functional expressions. We then study whether functional expressions within a class can be tra...

In this article, we conduct an empirical investigation of translation divergences between Chinese and English relying on a parallel treebank. To do this, we first devise a hierarchical alignment scheme where Chinese and English parse trees are aligned in a way that eliminates conflicts and redundancies between word alignments and syntactic parses to prevent the generation of spurious translatio...

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, we have been developing a Koreanto-English machine translation system CCLINC (Common Coalition Language System at Lincoln Laboratory). The CCLINC Korean-to-English translation system consists of two core modules, language understanding and generation modules mediated by a language neutral meaning representation called a semantic frame. The key features of the system i...

An important question in research about bilingualism is whether translation from a second language (L2) to the native language (L1) is semantically mediated or whether it occurs through word associations at the lexical level. Recent research has shown that both L1 and L2 number word translation imply semantic access, suggesting strong L2 lexicosemantic mappings for number words (Duyck & Brysbae...

Machine translation has wide applications in daily life. In mission-critical such as translating official documents, incorrect can have unpleasant or sometimes catastrophic consequences. This motivates recent research on testing methodologies for machine systems. Existing mostly rely metamorphic relations designed at the textual level (e.g., Levenshtein distance) syntactic distance between gram...