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This paper presents an approach to automatic translation in two steps. The first one is recognition (syntactic) and the last one is interpretation (semantic). In the recognition phase, we use volatile grammars. They represent an innovation to logic-based grammars. For the interpretation phase, we use componential analysis and the laws of integrity. Componential analysis defines the sense of the lexical parts. The rules of integrity, on the other hand, are in charge of refining, improving and optimizing translation. We applied this framework for general analysis of romance languages and for the automatic translation of texts from Spanish into other neo-Latin languages and vice versa.
This project has been partially funded by Asociación Mexicana de Cultura A.C.
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Cairó, O., Guardati, S. (2008). Automatic Translation in Two Phases: Recognition and Interpretation. In: Lovrek, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85565-1_11
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