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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/IEIESPC.2016.5.2.077

Multilingual Automatic Translation Based on UNL: A Case Study for the Vietnamese Language

Thuyen, Phan Thi Le (Quangtrung University)
Hung, Vo Trung (University of Science and Technology, The University of Danang)

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IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing / v.5, no.2, 2016 , pp. 77-84 More about this Journal

Abstract

In the field of natural language processing, Universal Networking Language (UNL) has been used by various researchers as an inter-lingual approach to automatic machine translation. The UNL system consists of two main components, namely, EnConverter for converting text from a source language to UNL, and DeConverter for converting from UNL to a target language. Currently, many projects are researching how to apply UNL to different languages. In this paper, we introduce the tools that are UNL's applications and discuss how to reuse them to encode a Vietnamese sentence into UNL expressions and decode UNL expressions into a Vietnamese sentence. The testing was done with about 1,000 Vietnamese sentences (a dictionary that includes 4573 entries and 3161 rules). In addition, we compare the proportion of sentences translated based on a direct method (Google Translator) and another one based on UNL.

Keywords

Universal networking language (UNL); UNL system; IAN; EnCo; EUGENE; DeCo;

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