Enhancing UniArab with FunGramKB

  1. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos
  2. Mairal Usón, Ricardo
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 2010

Issue: 44

Pages: 19-26

Type: Article

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Abstract

In the field of the Arabic-to-English machine translation, the pseudo-interlingual approach of UniArab clearly outperforms existing statistical machine translators, even only with the processing of simple sentences. The success of UniArab is founded upon the functional model of Role and Reference Grammar, which is able to reconstruct the logical structure underlying the input. However, it is essential to replace the UniArab lexical database with a robust knowledge base which enables linguistically-complex texts to be processed adequately. Indeed, the integration of FunGramKB into the architecture of UniArab allows the system to use a real interlingual representation known as “conceptual logical structure”, resulting in a conceptualist approach which supports multilingual generation.

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