Keeping the Meanings of the Source Text:An introduction to Yes Translate
The primary task of language translation is to faithfully pass the meaning(s)of the source text to the target language.Unfortunately,meanings often get lost or distorted in machine translation,including state-of-the-art Google Translate and Baidu Translate.Yes Translate is a Chinese-English translation tool to be maximally loyal to the source text while maintaining adequate fluency.This is implementable by avoiding risky actions of word deleting,adding and re-ordering.The tool is supported by an 116,000-words Dictionary.In an experiment on natural news articles freely selected by themselves,10 postgraduate students with good command of Chinese and English all agreed or strongly agreed that the general meaning of the translation by Yes Translate was correct and understandable.And 9 out of the 10 students agreed or strongly agreed that the general meaning of each sentence was correct.
Machine translation meanings Yes Translate YES-CEDICT
Xiaoheng Zhang
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies,Hong Kong Polytechnic University
国内会议
第十五届全国计算语言学学术会议(CCL2016)暨第四届基于自然标注大数据的自然语言处理国际学术研讨会(NLP-NABD-2016)
烟台
英文
1-13
2016-10-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）