Pierre Isabelle

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1986–2017

Pierre Isabelle wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1986–2017, most of them on Machine translation; often with Colin Cherry, Elliott Macklovitch, George Foster.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation (2017)
The paper proposes challenge sets: small, hand-written sets of English to French sentences, each built to test one structural divergence between the two languages, for example morphology that exposes agreement, stranded prepositions, double-object verbs, subcategorisation frames, idioms and WH-movement.
Towards Reversible MT Systems (1989)
The paper argues that translation competence is a relation between sets of source and target texts, and that most MT systems define only a one-way procedure, which hides the conditions of the relation.
Transfer and MT Modularity (1986)
The authors argue that second-generation rule-based MT systems break their own modularity rule: their transfer components hold target-language facts, such as the strict subcategorisation of the French verbs savoir and connaître, and their synthesis components are weak because transfer has already done the work.