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Re: CHAT: Machine translation (was Re: translation)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, June 19, 2006, 15:42
--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

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> 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.
My own opinion is a bit different. I have played aroujnd with some machine translation programming and some chat-bot programming and after researching all the various parsing engines out there I think 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." My own (incomplete) chat-bot parser project aims to do just that. ( http://fiziwig.com -- Under the heading "Computerized Linguistics and Machine Translation" and "Artificial Intelligence") --gary

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