Structural Transfer In An English To Turkish Machine Translation System

Old abstract: STRUCTURAL TRANSFER IN AN ENGLISH TO TURKISH MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM Turhan, C¸ i~gdem Keyder Ph.D., Department of Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Tolun January 1998 , 149 pages In the present thesis, the design and implementation of the transfer component of a transfer-based, human-assisted English to Turkish machine translation system using structural mapping has been discussed. The main objective of the system is to produce high-quality, low-cost, timely translations in technical domains. The source language intermediate representation utilized stores the feature structures and grammatical functions of the input sentence in a language independent formalism allowing the system to extend to other source languages. The important issues dealing with the differences between the languages are reflected as complex transfer rules in the transfer module. The system has been iii evaluated according to the system's performance and linguistic coverage. Keywords: Machin..