Abstract :
Departing from your principles is hard. The frequency and volume with which the principles of statistical and symbolic MT were repeated during the Statistics Wars means impressive-sounding arguments will continue for a while. But it is perhaps more instructive to consider what happens in practice. Baldly stated, if you want to build a non-toy MT system-a system with more than approximately 5,000 lexical items-that handles previously unseen input robustly, you always end up including some statistics-based modules or knowledge. And if you want a reasonable level of output quality, you always end up including some symbolic/linguistically motivated knowledge or modularization
Keywords :
expert systems; humanities; language translation; statistical analysis; symbol manipulation; hybridised machine translation; lexical items; linguistically motivated knowledge; modularization; statistical machine translation systems; statistics-based knowledge; statistics-based modules; symbolic machine translation systems; symbolic motivated knowledge; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; History; Humans; Intersymbol interference; Laboratories; Military computing; Poles and towers; Research and development; Statistics;
