Preliminary Report on the Insertion of English Articles in Russian-English MT Output

Research on a non-statistical scheme for the insertion of English articles in machine-translated Russian is described. Ideal article insertion as a goal is challenged as unreasonable. Classification of English nouns, simple syntactic criteria, and multiple printout are the scheme's main features. One of the most discussed problems in the automatic translation of Russian documents into English is the insertion of English articles in the output. Approaches to the solution of this problem, where it has been considered at all, are as varied as the basic MT programs in use by the different teams engaged in this work. Most projects, however, either use statistical criteria in the determination of English articles to the exclusion of all other considerations, or use a combined syntacticostatistical method; the aim of all such routines is th