Loading...

Design and Development of a Persian to English Translator Prototype

Niknejad, Ali |

471 Viewed
  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 39045 (19)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Computer Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Ghasem Sani, Gholamreza
  7. Abstract:
  8. Increasing relations between different cultures necessitates easier and more affordable methods of translation between different languages. Hence, using computers as Translators has been very attractive to many governmental and commercial organizations as well as scientific community since the very beginning of the computer era. So far, different approaches to MT have been proposed. Two of the main approaches to MT are Statistical MT and Rule-Based MT. Unlike Statistical MT, which uses statistical information for translation, Rule-Based MT utilizes precise linguistic information to understand the source and generate the target language. This inguisitic information is usually encoded as a computational grammar. Rule-Based MT systems can take advantage of different levels of language understanding including Syntactic and Semantic levels. In this thesis, a Rule-Based Persian to English machine translator prototype has been implemented. This translator is based on a Semantic Transfer method which utilizes Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) as its semantic representation. Besides, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammars (HPSG) has been employed as the computational grammar framework of the translator
  9. Keywords:
  10. Natural Language Processing ; Machine Translation ; Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammer (HPSG) ; Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS)

 Digital Object List

 Bookmark

No TOC