Abstract
This paper describes a Prolog-based Korean-English Machine Translation System (KEMTS).
KEMTS employs the transfer approach and consists of four separate phases — morphological analysis, parsing, deep structure generation, and English generation.
The implementation described here is based on a syntactic analysis of Hangul (the Korean language) and English, and it applies and extends the work of Marcus.
KEMTS also makes use of a dictionary management system called DProlog in order to overcome the inefficiency of the sequential search in Prolog and to manage the large amount of data conveniently.
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Choi, J.M., Song, M.S., Jeong, K.J., Kwon, H.C., Han, S.Y., Kim, Y.T. (1986). A Prolog-based Korean-English Machine Translation System and its efficient method of dictionary management. In: Wada, E. (eds) Logic Programming '85. LP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16479-0_23
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