The automatic component of the LINGSTAT machine-aided translation system

Abstract

LINGSTAT is an interactive machine-aided translation system designed to increase the productivity of a translator. It is aimed both at experienced users whose goal is high quality translation, and inexperienced users with little knowledge of the source whose goal is simply to extract information from foreign language text. The system makes use of statistical information gathered from parallel and single-language corpora, but also draws from linguistic sources of knowledge. The first problem to be studied is Japanese to English translation, and work is progressing on a Spanish to English system.