TAUM-AVIATION: its technical features and some experimental results

Abstract

Upon the completion of its highly successful TAUM-METEO machine translation system, the TAUM group undertook the construction of TAUM-AVIATION, an experimental system for English to French translation in the sublanguage of technical maintenance manuals. A detailed description of the resulting prototype is offered. In particular, the paper includes: a) some figures on the size of the system; b) a description of the underlying translation model (indirect approach, analysis/transfer/synthesis scheme); c) a presentation of the basic computational techniques (use of a specialized high-level metalanguage for each linguistic component); and d) some results on the evaluation of the prototype.