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Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Machine Translation

AI Magazine

Machine translation of human languages (for example, Japanese, English, Spanish) was one of the earliest goals of computer science research, and it remains an elusive one. Like many AI tasks, trans-lation requires an immense amount of knowledge about language and the world. Recent approaches to machine translation frequently make use of text-based learning algorithms to fully or partially automate the acquisition of knowledge. This article illustrates these approaches.


Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Machine Translation

AI Magazine

Machine translation of human languages (for example, Japanese, English, Spanish) was one of the earliest goals of computer science research, and it remains an elusive one. Like many AI tasks, trans-lation requires an immense amount of knowledge about language and the world. Recent approaches to machine translation frequently make use of text-based learning algorithms to fully or partially automate the acquisition of knowledge. This article illustrates these approaches.



JANUS: Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Connectionist and Non-Connectionist Techniques

Neural Information Processing Systems

JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech and 97% from German speech. We present the JANUS system along with comparative evaluations of its interchangeable processing components, with special emphasis on the connectionist modules.


JANUS: Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Connectionist and Non-Connectionist Techniques

Neural Information Processing Systems

JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech and 97% from German speech. We present the JANUS system along with comparative evaluations of its interchangeable processing components, with special emphasis on the connectionist modules.



Translating Locative Prepositions

Neural Information Processing Systems

The features used in the spatial representations were abstracted from Herskovits (1986). The network was trained using the generalized delta rule (Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, 1986) on a set of patterns with four components, three syntactic and one semantic. The syntactic components are a pair of nouns separated by a locative preposition [NI-LP-N21, and the semantic component is a representation of the spatial relationship [SR1.


Translating Locative Prepositions

Neural Information Processing Systems

The features used in the spatial representations were abstracted from Herskovits (1986). The network was trained using the generalized delta rule (Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, 1986) on a set of patterns with four components, three syntactic and one semantic. The syntactic components are a pair of nouns separated by a locative preposition [NI-LP-N21, and the semantic component is a representation of the spatial relationship [SR1.