摘要 |
A computer natural language translation system, comprising: means for inputting source language text; means for outputting target language text; transfer means for generating said target language text from said source language text using stored translation data generated from examples of source and corresponding target language texts, characterised in that said stored translation data comprises a plurality of translation components, each comprising: surface data representative of the order of occurrence of language units in said component; dependency data related to the semantic relationship between language units in said component; and link data linking dependency data of language components of said source language with corresponding dependency data of language components of said target language, and in that said transfer means is arranged to used said surface data of said source language in analysing the source language text, and said surface data of said target language in generating said target language text, and said dependency data and link data in transforming the analysis of said source text into an analysis for said target language. |