Re: Machine Translation

On 29 Nov 2003 23:31:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Omer Rashid) wrote:

>Hello All , 
>        How r u ? I guess so fine. I am writing my first letter 
>to this group .Hope u all will coordinate. Here is the problem. First
>,
>what I want to do is "Machine Translation"(changing from one language
>to another).This is the topic of Natural Language Processing and is 
>also a lot concerned with speech.Lets see it from an example , suppose
>I want to convert an english spoken words to german or any other 
>language.First I will convert the english words to english text,then
>translate the english text to german text and then from german text to
>german spoken or speech .So , my question is that how can I convert 
>the text of English to german text, can any body suggest me how can I 
>do that , coz I don't think so I will be able to do so , according to 
>my knowledge . So , help me . I have 2-3 sugesstions for that that it 
>should be word to word rather than sentence wise . Kindly tell me as
>soon
>as possible . I will be very grateful to u for ur suggestions .I am 
>waiting . One thing more , can u suggest me the best group for this
>topic of Machine Translation. I am new to google groups . I think so
>its the best.
MT is a pretty deep subject. Automated word-word dictionary lookup
doesn't solve the problem. To get an idea of the rest, think about what
you would have to do to use a dictionary to write a translation of this post,
or worse, think of a joke or poem to translate.

Anyway, you might find something interesting if you go to the links page from

    http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/

one of the links from the links page is to CMU

    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/0.html

where in turn you will find much of interest, I would guess.
You may also want to browse relevant google directory entries, e.g., one category is

    http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Natural_Language/

Of course straight searching will also find you lots of stuff. 

HTH

Regards,
Bengt Richter