Continuous Text Translation Using Text Modeling in the Thetos System

In the paper a method of modeling text for Polish is discussed. The method is aimed at transforming continuous input text into a text consisting of sentences in so called canonical form, whose characteristic is, among others, a complete structure as well as no anaphora or ellipses. The transformation is lossless as to the content of text being transformed. The modeling method has been worked out for the needs of the Thetos system, which translates Polish written texts into the Polish sign language. We believe that the method can be also used in various applications that deal with the natural language, e.g. in a text summary generator for Polish.

Authors:

• Nina Suszczanska
• Przemyslaw Szmal
• Slawomir Kulikow

Keywords:

• anaphora
• machine translation
• NLP
• sign language
• text syntax.

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