Document Authoring the Bible for Minority Language Translation

Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Tod Allman


Abstract
This paper describes one approach to document authoring and natural language generation being pursued by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in cooperation with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. We will describe the tools provided for document authoring, including a glimpse at the underlying controlled language and the semantic representation of the textual meaning. We will also introduce The Bible Translator’s Assistant© (TBTA), which is used to elicit and enter target language data as well as perform the actual text generation process. We conclude with a discussion of the usefulness of this paradigm from a Bible translation perspective and suggest several ways in which this work will benefit the field of computational linguistics.
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2005.mtsummit-papers.9
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers
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September 13-15
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2005
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Phuket, Thailand
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63–70
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Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, and Tod Allman. 2005. Document Authoring the Bible for Minority Language Translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers, pages 63–70, Phuket, Thailand.
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