User:Francis Tyers/An MT system in one thousand steps

Research

• Find a grammar of language X and of language Y
• Find a bilingual dictionary X-Y
• Find bilingual dictionaries X-Z and Y-Z
• Find 1-3 large monolingual corpora of language X and language Y
• Find a parallel corpus of language X and language Y

Morphological analysers

• Add closed categories
  • Add adpositions (1 task)
  • Add conjunctions (1 task)
  • Add determiners (1 task)
  • Add pronouns (1 task)
  • Add numerals (1 task)
    • At least 1-100 leaving out compositional numerals
• Create frequency lists from your corpora
• Add open categories
  • Add nouns
  • Add proper nouns
  • Add adjectives
  • Add adverbs
  • Add verbs

Bilingual dictionary

• Morphologically analyse and word align parallel corpus
  • Extract bilingual dictionary candidates
  • Proofread and add candidates by frequency
• Find freely available dictionaries online
  • Convert to lttoolbox format

Lexical selection

• POS tag and word align parallel corpus
  • Extract default translation rules

Disambiguation

• Make a list of most frequent ambiguities

Transfer rules

• Write a contrastive grammar