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PV061 Introduction to Machine Translation

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2003

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Alternate Types of Completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)

Supervisor

doc. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Information Technologies - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.

Timetable

Tue 11:00–12:50 B410

Prerequisites (v češtině)

! P061 Úvod do strojového překladu

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Optics and Optometrics)

Course objectives

The course offers the information about the basics of machine translation. Main machine translation techniques and systems are discussed. The attention is also payed to the ambiguity problem, relations to the knowledge representation and semantic representation.

Syllabus

• Machine Translation (MT) and its Relation to AI
• History of MT and the state of art.
• Approaches to MT: binary MT, interlingua based MT, techniques using parallel corpora.
• Translation process: lexical analysis and lexicons, morphological and syntactic analysis and representation of sentence structure, transfer, problems of meaning representation, synthesis.
• Key issues of MT: ambiguity problem, knowledge representation, semantic issues, terminology.
• Some successful MT systems: TAUM-METEO, TAUM-AVIATIC, EUROTRA, the existing systems working with Czech language - short overview: TRANSEN, PC-TRANSLATOR.
• EU framework: project like GENELEX, EAGLES, standardization, multipurpose and reusable resources within EC.
• Examples and experiments: small experimental translation system in Prolog - Czech - English.

Literature

• HUTCHINS, W. John and Harold L. SOMERS. An introduction to machine translation. London: Academic Press, 1992. xxi, 362 s. ISBN 0-12-362830-. info

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012.

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