Deepening wisdom or compromised principles?-the hybridization of statistical and symbolic MT systems

Author

Hovy, Eduard H.

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

18

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IEEE Expert

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-9000

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/64.491313

Filename

491313