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"abstract": "This paper presents an expectation-based Japaneseto-English translation system called JETR which relies on the forward expectation-refinement process to handle ungrammatical sentences in an elegant and efficient manner without relying on the presence of particles and verbs in the source text. JETR uses a chain of result states to perform context analysis for resolving pronoun and object references and filling ellipses. Unlike other knowledge-based systems, JETR attempts to achieve semantic, pragmatic, structural and lexical invariance.",
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"text": "Recently there has been a revitalized interest in machine translation as both a practical engineering problem and a tool to test various Artificial Intelligence (AI) theories. As a result of increased international communication, there exists today a massive Japanese effort in machine translation. However, systems ready for commercialization are still concentrating on syntactic information and are unable to translate syntactically obscure but meaningful sentences. Moreover, many of these systems do not perform context analysis and thus cannot fill ellipses or resolve pronoun references. Knowledge-based systems, on the other hand, tend to discard the syntax of the source text and thus are unable to preserve the syntactic style of the source text. Moreover, these systems concentrate on understanding and thus do not preserve the semantic content of the source text.",
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"text": "An expectation-based approach to \"Japanese-to-English machine translation is presented. The approach is demonstrated by the JETR system which is designed to translate recipes and instruction booklets. Unlike other Japanese-to-English translation systems, which rely on the presence of particles and main verbs in the source text (AAT 1984 , Ibuki 1983 , Nitta 1982 tThe author is now located at: Rockwell International Corp. Autonetics Strategic Systems Division Mail Code: GA42 3370 Miraloma Avenue, P.O. Box 4192 Anaheim, California 92803-4192 Saino 1983 , Shimazu 1983 , JETR is designed to translate ungrammatical and abbreviated sentences using semantic and contextual information. Unlike other knowledge-based translation systems (Cullingford 1976 , Ishizaki 1983 , Schank 1982 , Yang 1981 , JETR does not view machine translation as a paraphrasing problem. JETR attempts to achieve semantic, pragmatic, structural and lexical invariance which (Carbonell 1981) gives as multiple dimensions of quality in the translation process. Analyzer I",
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"text": "JETR is comprised of three interleaved components: the particle-driven analyzer, the generator, and the context analyzer as shown in Figure 1 . The three components interact with one another to preserve information contained in grammatical as well as ungrammatical texts. The overview of each component is presented below. This paper focuses on the particledriven analyzer.",
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"text": "The difficulty of translation depends on the similarity between the languages involved. Japanese and English are vastly different languages. Translation from Japanese to English involves restructuring of sentences, disambiguation of words, and additions and deletions of certain lexical items. The following characteristics of the Japanese language have influenced the design of the JETR system: 1. Japanese is a left-branching, postpositional, subject-object-verb language.",
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"text": ". Information is usually more explicitly stated in English than in Japanese. There are no articles (i.e. \"a\", \"an\", and \"the\"). There are no singular and plural forms of nouns. Grammatical sentences can have their subjects and objects missing (i.e. ellipses).",
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"text": "The first sentence lacks the main verb, while the second sentence lacks the particle after the noun \"shin.\" The role of \"shin\" must be determined without relying on the particle and the word order.",
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"text": "In addition to the problems of unknown words and unclear or ambiguous interpretation, missing particles and verbs are often found in recipes, instruction booklets and other informal texts posing special problems for machine translation systems. The Particle-Driven Analyzer (PDA) is a robust intrasentence analyzer designed to handle ungrammatical sentences in an elegant and efficient manner.",
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"text": "While analyzers of the English language rely heavily on verb-oriented processing, the existence of particles in the Japanese language and the subjectobject-verb word order have led to the PDA's reliance on forward expectations from words other than verbs. The PDA is unique in that it does not rely on the presence of particles and verbs in the source text. To take care of missing particles and verbs, not only verbs but all nouns and adverbs are made to point to action frames which are structures used to describe actions. For both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences, the PDA continuously combines and refines forward expectations from various phrases to determ/ne their roles and to predict actions. These expectations are semantic in nature and disregard the word order of the sentence. Each expectation is an action-role pair of the form (<action> <role>). Actions are names of action frames while roles correspond to the slot names of action frames. Since the main verb is almost always found at the end of the sentence, combined forward expectations are strong enough to point to the roles of the nouns and the meaning of the verb. For example, consider \"neji (screw) migi (right) \u2022 3 kurikku (clicks).\" By the time, \"3 clicks\" is read, there are strong expectations for the act of turning, and the screw expects to be the object of the act. The PDA is similar to IPP (Lebowitz 1983) in that words other than verbs are made to point to structures which describe actions. However, unlike IPP, a generic role-filling process will be invoked only if an unexpected verb is encountered or the forward expectations do not match. Figure 3 shows such a case.",
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"text": "The verb will not invoke any role-filling or role-determining process ff the semantic expectations from the other phrases match the verb. Therefore, the PDA discourages inefficient verb-initiated backward searches for role-fillers even when particles are missing.",
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"text": "Unlike LUTE (Shimazu 1983) , the PDA's generic rolefilling process does not rely on the presence of particles. To each slot of each action frame, acceptable filler types are attached. When particles are missing, the role-filling rule matches the object types of role fillers against the information attached to action frames. The object types in each domain are organized in a hierarchy, and frame slots are allowed to point to any level in the hierarchy.",
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"text": "Verbs with multiple meanings are disambiguated by starting out with a set of action frames (e.g. a2 and a3) and discarding a frame if a given phrase cannot fill any slot of the frame.",
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"text": "Certain syntactic features of the source text can serve as functionally relevant features of the situation being described in the source text. Preservation of these features often helps the meaning and the nuance to be reproduced. However, knowledge-based systems discard the syntax of the original text. In other words, the information about the syntactic style of the source text, such as the phrase order and the syntactic classes of the original words, is not found in the internal representation. Furthermore, inferred role fillers, causal connections, and events are generated disregarding the brevity of the original text. For example, the generator built by the Electrotechnical Laboratory of Japan (Ishizaki 1983) , which produces Japanese texts from the conceptual representation based on MOPs (Schank 1982) , generates a pronoun whenever the same noun is seen the second time. Disregarding the original sentence order, the system determines the order using causal chains. Moreover, the subject and object are often omitted from the target sentence to prevent wordiness.",
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"text": "In knowledge-based systems, the context analyzer is designed with the goal of natural-language understanding in mind; therefore, object and pronoun references are resolved, and ellipses are filled as a by product of understanding the input text. However, some human translators claim that they do not always understand the texts they translate (Slocum 1985) . Moreover, knowledge-based translation systems are less practical than systems based on direct and transfer methods. Wilks (1973) states that \"...it may be possible to establish a level of understanding somewhat short of that required for question-answering and other intelligent behaviors.\" Although identifying the level of understanding required in general by a machine translation system is difficult, the. level clearly depends on the languages, the text type and the tasks involved in translation. INSTRA was designed with the goal of identifying the level of understanding required in translating instruction booklets from Japanese to English.",
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"text": "Anarogu bu no jikoku:awase. 60 pun shu-sei.Ryu-zu o hikidashite migi \u2022 subayaku 2 kurikku mawasu to cho-shin ga 1 kaiten shire 60 pun susumu.Mata gyaku hi, hidari e subayaku 2 kurikku mawasu to cho-shin ga I kaiten shim 60 pun modoru. Ryu-zu o I kurikku mawasu tabigoto ni pitt to iu kakuninon ga dcru.",
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"text": "Pull out the crown; when you quickly turn it clockwise 2 clicks, the minute hand turns one cycle and advances 60 minutes. Also conversely, when you quickly turn it counterclockwise 2 clicks, the minute hand turns one cycle and goes back 60 minutes. Everytime you turn the crown I click, the confirmation alarm \"peep\" goes off.EXAMPLE 2 SOURCE TEXT: (Murakami 1978) (1).All over the chicken place 2 tablespoons of soy sauce; let alone 1 hour.(2).As for the potatoes, after you cut them into eight pieces, remove the skin; place about 10 minutes in water.(3).As for the onion, cut into thin slices; place in water. As for the cabbage, remove the hard part; after you cut them vertically into 3 equal pieces, cut into fine pieces; place in water.",
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