Automatic Translation from Belarusian into Spanish Based on Using Nooj’s Linguistic Resources

Abstract

This work is the first step on the elaboration of the Belarusian-Spanish dictionary, which would contain Spanish equivalents for Belarusian words and expressions. The global goal is to create a Belarusian-Spanish dictionary of simple words supplied with different kinds of grammatical information, e.g. category, inflectional and derivational paradigms, and also the semantic information concerning the lemmata. One more point is that the dictionary must comprise a number of set word combinations typical for both languages that would make the translation of idioms possible. Finally, it is important to create some local grammars indispensable to resolve translation problems and to make contextual desambiguation both in Belarusian and Spanish. This article describes a provisional dictionary for a fragment of the Belarusian NooJ module text and some simple local grammars reflecting particular translation problems.