Research on ontology-driven Chinese-English machine translation

This paper presents an ontology-driven Chinese-English machine translation prototype system. We construct a small ontology called "SCIENTIST", based on which we develop a Chinese-English MT system. We introduce the basic rules and steps we follow to build the ontology and how we use ontology to represent meanings and deal with ambiguation. We show that ontology is necessary in semantic analysis and disambiguation. It provides a world model with meaning units and structures for meaning representation and reasoning. It provides a new perspective to handle the semantic analysis of MT.