Countability and Number in Japanese to English Machine Translation

This paper presents a heuristic method that uses information in the Japanese text along with knowledge of English countability and number stored in transfer dictionaries to determine the countability and number of English.noun phrases. Incorporating this method into the machine translation system ALTJ/E, helped tOraise the percentage of noun phrases generated with correct use of articles and number from 65% to 73%.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura, Satoru Ikehara
• Keywords: COLING 1994, COLING 2008, English.noun Phrases, Heuristic Method, Noun Phrases