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    The document discusses the differences between bilingual and multilingual machine translation systems. Bilingual systems translate between two languages and can be unidirectional or bidirectional, while multilingual systems support translation between more than two languages. Eurotra is provided as an example of a large-scale multilingual system that supports translation between 72 language pairs using a transfer-based model with separate analysis and generation modules for each language.

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    MULTILINGUAL VS BILINGUAL MT

    SYSTEMS. UNIDERECTIONAL AND


    BIDIRECTIONAL MT SYSTEMS
    PERFORMED BY SECOND-YEAR STUDENT
    ( S U B G R O U P 1 ) N ATA L I I A S H Y K I N A
    bilingual
    Systems
    multilingual
    BILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    • Bilingual systems – systems that are designed for two


    particular languages.
    They may be:

    unidirectional bidirectional
    Language1 Language2 Language1 Language2
    BILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    Also bilingual systems may be:

    reversible non-reversible

    Language analysis

    Step 1 – Step 2 – Step 3

    Language generation
    BILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    • Such a bilingual system is best represented as:

    Language1 Language2 + Language1 Language2

    instead of

    Language1 Language2
    BILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    • Direct translation is a word by word translation approach. It


    directly translates the source language to the target language.
    It is unidirectional bilingual machine translation. It
    requires huge amount of morphological analysis but only a
    little syntax and semantic analysis is required.
    MULTILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    • A system involving more than two languages is a


    multilingual system, in an extreme case with a large number
    of languages in every combination.
    • In other words it is a computerized system that is designed to
    translate source text from various natural languages into
    target text of another natural languages.
    MULTILINGUAL SYSTEMS

    • A more modest multilingual system might translate from


    English into three other languages in one direction only (i.e.
    three language pairs).

    • Sometimes multilingual systems do not cover all the possible


    combinations of pairs and directions.

    • A 'truly' multilingual system is one in which analysis and


    generation components for a particular language remain
    constant (and separate) whatever other languages are involved.
    EUROTRA

    • A great example is Eurotra system, which was designed to be


    a multilingual system between the languages of the EEC
    (European Economic Community).

    • This project is unique in that it comprises 72 language pairs.


    EUROTRA

    • EUROTRA uses a variant of the transfer model for machine


    translation, i.e. the translation process is broken down into
    three modules - analysis, transfer, generation.
    text ——---- IS ----— IS' ------------- text'
    analysis transfer generation
    • This is generally acknowledged to be a very good scheme for
    multilingual machine translation, as it restricts the bilingual
    treatments to the transfer modules: only one analysis
    module is made for each language, and only one generation
    module.
    CONCLUSION

    • Systems are designed either for two particular languages


    (bilingual systems) or for more than a single pair of
    languages (multilingual systems). Bilingual systems may
    be designed to operate either in only one direction
    (unidirectional), e.g. from Japanese into English, or in
    both directions (bidirectional). Multilingual systems are
    usually intended to be bidirectional; most bilingual
    systems are unidirectional.

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