The Critical Technology Development Status of Machine Translation

Abstract:

In this article, we mainly introduce some basic concepts about machine translation. Machine translation means translating a natural language text to another by software. It can be divided into two categories: rule-based and corpus-based. IBM's statistical machine translation, Microsoft's multi-language machine translation project, AT & T's voice translation system and CMUs PANGLOSS system are three typical machine translation systems. Due to sentences are constructed by words continuously in Chinese. Chinese word segmentation is very essential. Three methods of Chinese word segmentation: segmentation methods based on string matching, segmentation method based on the understanding and segmentation method based on the statistics.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 791-793)
• Pages: 1622-1625
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.791-793.1622
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Dan Han, Zhi Han Yu
• Keywords: Chinese Word Segmentation, Machine Translation, Machine Translation Systems

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