QUINCE System; State-of-the-Art Review
Abstract
The Report documents a 9-month effort consisting of programming documentation for QUINCE System; inventory of R and D holdings (software, hardware, data files), and state-of-the-art assessment of linguistic and data processing requirements for IOC in Chinese-English machine translation. Background information is provided in Section I (INTRODUCTION). Section II contains a textual description of application software and utilities, including pertinent flowcharts, diagrams and tables. Programming documentation supplied under contract consists of a four-volume set (13 supplements). Inventory of hardware, software and data files is included in Appendix. Section III provides a critical review of the current state-of-the-art in computational syntactic description of natural languages from the viewpoint of its relevancy to machine translation R and D. Rules for a fragment of Chinese grammar are presented in the Appendix. Section IV describes requisites to a further consolidation of the linguistic data base in terms of semantic feature set, interlingual transfer component, contrastive lexical/syntactic studies and contextual analysis involving language-specific problems in Chinese (elided subjects; number, tense and aspect, definite vs. indefinite reference). Extensive bibliographies are provided in Section III and Section IV.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADB029370
Entities
People
- Chiu-chung Liao
- Mary S. Wang
- Robert Gaskins
- William S-y. Wang
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley