French / English Translation by Sharon Ulery

Purpose computational linguistics to serve students of French or English & those who only know one of these translate French to English and English to French well enough to be understandable Even a less than perfect translation is useful for basic understanding for students to check their writing

Scope Iterative form Baseline- word-for-word translation Expected- subject-verb-object form Ideal- all grammatical utterances

Similar Projects Various levels of sophistication Web-based free automatic translation Software packages for profit Human translation

Theory NLP techniques Rules- based Not robust Grammatical v. ungrammatical utterances What it does, it does correctly Easier to code Statistical analysis Robust How people really talk Dependant on corpus More sophisticated, harder to code

Algorithms Java,Hansard corpus/bilingual dictionary French v. English versions classes: Word and Driver methods: determineContent() determineStem() determinePOS() determineGender() determineLang() determineNumber() determineVerbType()

Testing Structural testing Single user (me) Ongoing After each new method After making improvements to existing methods Checks that algorithms work as expected Random testing Multiple users Periodically Later in development process Catches what structural testing misses Shows if new algorithms are needed

Current Results Word-for-word translation Stores information in each field Determines everything in dictionary Determines stem Mechanics – ignores punctuation, etc. Displays information about each field for each wordtoken