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APAC — An experiment in machine translation

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This paper discusses an experiment in machine translation between English and Czech. Our system is based on a dependency grammar and its core parts are implemented in Q-systems. There is no distinct transfer phase. Many features of the system are determined by the fact that it was conceived as “production-oriented”. A brief description of the system is provided, but the main focus is on the problems encountered. They include general problems of translation, problems of translation from English and problems specific to translation from English into Czech (and possibly most other Slavonic languages). Some solutions are described, but for many problems it seems unrealistic to expect satisfactory solutions soon or at all.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Kirschner

  2. Research Institute of Mathematical Machines, Prague, Czech Republic

    Alexandr Rosen

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Kirschner, Z., Rosen, A. APAC — An experiment in machine translation. Mach Translat 4, 177–193 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420842

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