Hi, I consider info on primarily domain and secondly style useful for disambiguation. As a first step it would be very nice to be able to add a domain-tag to words. Adding info on style would make it possible to further improve translation results.
The translation would improve considerably if the user could choose the appropriate domain when demanding a translation. Consider e.g. the example of translating the English word "key", or similarly the French word "clé/clef", to Swedish. If the domain is e.g. Tourism/accommodation/real estate or similar, the word would most likely translate to "nyckel" (to lock/unlock the door of a house). On the other hand if the domain is e.g. information technology (or even music) the word would most likely translate to "tangent" (on your keyboard or piano). Obviously, a lexical selector/disambiguator could be trained on a corpus from a specific domain as well, further improving to the translation. On more reason to take domains into account is that it's fairly easy to get a high coverage and accuracy when concentrating on translating a domain, rather than trying to make a system that makes a general translation. Further, it's a fruitful way to build a new language pair: adding a domain at a time. Thus, the system quickly gets useful. 1. I'm planning to spend some days on adding translation for some domains to the pair Swedish-Danish (sv-da). It would be nice to be able to include the domain-info from the start. 2. Has any work been done on using domain-info in lexical selection/disambiguation? Any plans? Yours, Per Tunedal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
