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In messages with variables and variants, such as “the imag.fr $n-[st|nd|rd|th] trial was successful, and the $p file[|s] found [is|are] satisfactory.”, variable types are specific (cardinal, ordinal, politeness...) and induce different “variant cases” in each language. Controlled loop-free FSAs, called here “message automata” (MAs), are proposed to model such messages. To translate a MA, one generates an instance of it for each possible variant in the target language. After translation, the values used in the instances are discarded and a target language MA is built by factorization (not classical minimization), using an original dynamic programming algorithm. A library for handling catalogues of MAs, GetAMsg, has been implemented in C, and can be used from many usual programming languages. A still speculative idea is to use a UNL graph conform to the official specifications, but with some special conventions, to represent a message with variables, and generate the language-specific MAs from it.
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Boitet, C. (2005). Message Automata for Messages with Variants, and Methods for Their Translation. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_40
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