Shallow parsing for Portuguese-Spanish machine translation

Abstract

To produce fast, reasonably intelligible and easily correctable translations between related languages, it suffices to use a machine translation strategy which uses shallow parsing techniques to refine what would usually be called word-for-word machine translation. This paper describes the application of shallow parsing techniques (morphological analysis, lexical disambiguation, and flat, local parsing) in a Portuguese–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese machine translation system which is currently being developed by our group and is publicly and freely available at http://copacabana.dlsi.ua.es.