[Corpora-List] Interlingual Machine Translation Systems (fwd)

[Yorick WIlks]

Sorry, we disagree----in my value system slimy, back-handed ad hominem
reprimands like this last, copied to the whole list and making no
intellectual point at all, are infinitely more damaging to lists and
communication than anything i wrote. I was just trying to correct
ignorance after many years of seeing MT unfairly slagged off: this
email has no defensible point at all.
YW


On Saturday, November 20, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Bob Parks wrote:

> Professor Wilks,
> Couldn't an eminent computational linguist of your stature afford to
> forego this sort of response? Wouldn't it be sufficient to disagree?
> Bob Parks
>
> At 3:57 PM +0000 11/20/04, Yorick WIlks wrote:
>> This reply from Russia is total nonsense, unless "good" means
>> something utterly impractical. There are many evaluated MT systems
>> that do a reasonable job (i.e. giving a good indication of what a
>> document says) and some are available free on search sites as well
>> all know. The world's oldest and strongest system SYSTRAN sometimes
>> does a very good job. recommending a  20 word MT system shows utter
>> ignorance of the last forty years.
>> Yorick Wilks
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Sergey Protasov wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Eric,
>>>
>>> There are no good MT systems today at all.
>>> So there are no good opensource MT systems today.
>>>
>>> ThoughtTreasure is very big system for teaching and it have bad
>>> syntax parser. (It fails, if senstence have more that 7-10 words)
>>>
>>> I recommend you to see link grammar translator for teaching.
>>> http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-to-translator.html
>>> It show very good translations, but It have 20 words in vocab only..
>>>
>>> You can add more words... But it is not trivial...
>>>
>>> If you intresting in statistical mashine translation, forget I said
>>> before and go to here
>>>
>>> http://www.isi.edu/licensed-sw/rewrite-decoder/
>>>
>>>
>>> It simple, but you will do not know how it works..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergey Protasov
>>> PhD student in Computational Linguistics,
>>> Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric Atwell wrote:
>>>> Sergey,
>>>> do you have any evaluation report or other evidence of how good
>>>> this OpenSource MT system is?  Bogdan Babych, researcher here at
>>>> Leeds,
>>>> is thinking of developing a demo MT system for research and
>>>> teaching,
>>>> but it may be worth considering adapting  an existing oepn-source
>>>> system
>>>> regards
>>>> Eric Atwell
>