* Gary Shannon said on 2006-06-19 17:42:40 +0200
> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Unfortunately, translation doesn't lend itself well to the
> > expert-system approach. My personal belief is that reliable MT is
> > tantamount to real AI - that the two problems are, in fact, actually
> > the same problem.
This is my belief also - and I now have a master in MT to back me up :)
[..] the real problem is the parsers. They parse for structure instead
> of parsing for meaning. Once a parser is built that will yeild the
> IDENTICAL parse tree for the two sentences below, then the machine
> translation problem will be mostly solved:
>
> 1. "Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard."
> 2. "It was to the wall-mounted cabinet that the eldery woman named
> Mother Hubbard did go."
But these two sentences doesn't mean quite the same thing, and would be
rendered differently in target languages as well.
t.