No. 10, Mar 2013

Features

Improving the process of machine translation

Developers of Japanese-to-English machine translation (MT) systems face more difficulties than counterparts providing systems translating English into Japanese. “Japanese is a word-order free language,” says Hitoshi Isahara, professor of computational linguistics and the president of the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation. “Japanese also frequently omits the subject, so we often need some context to translate Japanese into English accurately.”