Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Translator

Timestamp:

07/04/19 11:36:46 (5 years ago)

Author:

wouter

Comment:

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Translator

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+= Translator =
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+Translator is a tool to convert words and sentences S from one language ("A") to another language ("B"). The tool bases its translation on sentence pairs (A, B). It finds the best matching sentence in A and then returns the sentence B.
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+The sentences in A and B can also contain variables. If S can be matched under an assignment of variables, then the translation is B with the same variables assigned. For example suppose we have a tuple ("Where did you meet [X]?","Waar heb je [X] ontmoet?"). To translate the sentence S="Where did you meet Jan?" it is noticed that S matches the first of the tuple under the assignment [X/Jan]. Therefore the translation becomes "Waar heb je Jan ontmoet?".
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+Sometimes it is desirable to have the substitutions for the match also be translated. For instance consider the tuple ("Where did you find this <X>?","Waar heb je deze <X> gevonden?"). And suppose we have another tuple in the database ("car","auto") Now the sentence S="Where did you find this car?" matches with the first of the tuple under the assignment [X/car]. Because the variable is inside pointy brackets, the variable itself is now attempted to be translated, giving [X/auto]. To get the translated sentence, this is applied to the second of the tuple to get "Waar heb je deze auto gevonden?".
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+So we have two types of variables in the tuples:
+||variable||translation||
+||[Variable]||direct substitution into B||
+||<Variable>||substitution of translated variable in B||
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+== Reverse translation
+The translator offers functionality to reverse the translation, to translate sentences and words back from B to A
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+==Fragment handling
+Another option of the translator is to translate fragments.