The PARS family of machine translation systems for Dutch system description/demonstration

Abstract

Lingvistica is developing a family of MT systems for Dutch to and from English, German, and French. PARS/H, a Dutch⇔English system, is a fully commercial product, while PARS/HD, for Dutch⇔German MT, and PARS/HF, for Dutch⇔French, are under way. The PARS/Dutch family of MT systems is based on the rule-based Lingvistica's Dutch morphological-syntactic analyzer and synthesizer dealing with vowel and consonant alterations in Dutch words, as well as Dutch syntactic analysis and synthesis. Besides, a German analyzer and synthesizer have been developed, and a similar French one is being constructed. Representative Dutch and German grammatical dictionaries have been created, comprising Dutch and German words and their complete morphological descriptions: class and subclass characteristics, alteration features, and morphological declension/conjugation paradigms. The PARS/H dictionary editor provides simple dictionary updating. Numerous specialist dictionaries are being and have been created. The user interface integrates PARS/H with MS Word and MS Internet Explorer, fully preserving the corresponding formats. Integrating with MS Excel and many other applications is under way. © Springer-Verlag 2004.