GF is a framework for defining multilingual grammars, each based on a
common abstract syntax. The abstract syntax is defined by using
type theory, in the same way as in...
GF has been developed for 12 years now, and multilingual GF-based
translation has been tested in numerous applications, ranging
from mathematics via software specifications to spoken dialogue...
Yes, it is, if we want to have a universal interlingua working for everything.
This is why we don't believe we can ever translate newspapers with MOLTO techniques.
However, domain-specific...
The first challenge is to scale up the size of applications.
Not so much the number of languages, which we know how to manage already,
but the lexicon size - from hundreds to thousands of words....
This is perhaps the most speculative research topic in MOLTO.
We will, first of all, attach to the increasing efforts on hybrid systems, where statistics is used as fall-back of rule-based...
The main generic tools are extensions of GF with new user interfaces:
a grammar engineer's tool for building systems for new domains,
and a translator's tool for using a given translation system....
Our code will run on all major operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
So users can download and install MOLTO tools on their own computers. But
we will also make them available as web...
Here is a concrete example of how it can go on. Let's say you want to build a translator for arithmetic propositions. Then you build first of all an abstract syntax, which defines basic...
You cannot ignore Google when working on machine translation: for most
people, it is the state of the art for translation on the web. We see MOLTO
translation as an approach diametrically opposed...
