Countability and Number in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation

Bond, Francis; Ogura, Kentaro; Ikehara, Satoru

Countability and Number in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation

Authors

Bond, Francis

Ogura, Kentaro

Ikehara, Satoru

Description

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 ALT-J/E, helped to raise the percentage of noun phrases generated with correct use of articles and number from 65% to 73%.
7 pages, LaTeX, uses twocolumn.sty, 11pt, lsalike.sty, gb4e.sty