Summary Report Survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries Virach...

Summary ReportSurvey on Research and

Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries

Virach Sornlertlamvanich

Information Research and Development Division

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center

Thailand

4-8 August 2002, 2nd AIIS/APT, Brunei

Survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation

in Asian Countries

Merlin Beach ResortPhuket, Thailand

May 13-14, 2002

Participation

Participants : 11 Countries

India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

: and 1 region

Hong Kong

Total participants: 50 (oversea 24, local 26)- R&D group (39)- Supporting, policy and planning group (11)

Objectives:

1) To update technology status of machine translation in Asia.

2) To exchange research and development experience in the field.

3) To establish collaboration for developing a cross language web navigation in Asia.

4) To establish activities for technology transfer from experienced countries to the inexperienced countries.

5) To develop human resources in the field.

Activities

- Keynote speech: 'AAMT Activities and General Trends of MT' by Dr. Hitoshi Iida

- 17 papers by participants* MT Research Techniques: spoken language translation,

semantic annotation, research on particular cases

* MT Research Status in the Countries* Digitalization Research and Infrastructure Status* Problems in R&D

- Roundtable Discussion

* Collaboration within Asia* Standardization for languages within this region* Financial support problem* Possibility of joining the existing working bodies

MT status in Asia

Basic components:- Standardization (Character code and locale) Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam

Working on Regional MT:- Philippines and India (official lang. - dialects) Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei (share resources

for Malay-English MT development)

Experience on English and mother language MT Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.

MT in Thailand

Computerization (1970-)Experience (1981-1996)Development and Service (1998-)Regional Collaboration (200?)

Dev. & Service

Collab.

Computerization

Experience

1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

ParSit

SMART TRANSLATOR 1.9 TRANSLATOR 1.5

AGENT DICT

PLAETHAI

Available MT in Thailand

ParSit Service Process

ParSit Server- receive data from user- send data to MT server

2

User send URL/TEXTto ParSit server

1

ParSit Server- receive result from MT- send result to User

4

User receive ThaiWP from server

5

MT Server (E-T)3

Number of unique session/month

Jul-01

Aug-01

Sep-01

Oct-01

Nov-01

Dec-01

Jan-02

Feb-02

Mar-02

Apr-02

May-02

Jun-02

Jul-02

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59616

94800101275

128042

105652

85070

4639541376

100858

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Expected Collaboration in Asia

Establish Asian chapters for Intra-Asian Collaboration.

Construct Help-desk operation for standardization.

Establish a Working group or Liaison Secretariat for Language resources.

Establish a Working group or Liaison Secretariat for MT.

Make standardization among Asian languages Share language resources

Exchange information for research & application

Three Levels of Collaboration

StandardizationFont, Character code, I/O method, Print,

Locale

Language Resources and Processing ToolsDictionary, Corpus, NLP generic tools

Cross-Language R&D and ServicesMachine Translation, Search engine, Information Retrieval/Extraction

Resource Sharing

Cross-Language Technology

Open Source Software

Cross Language Technology

ChineseLanguage Processing

JapaneseLanguage Processing

FrenchLanguage Processing

KoreanLanguage Processing

MyanmarLanguage Processing

VietnamLanguage Processing

IndonesiaLanguage Processing

ThaiLanguage Processing

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