The General System Design of KSHALT

Abstract

This paper presents the general system design of an English-Korean machine translation system (KSHALT). The system has been developed as a prototype for practical machine translation systems and is based on the transfer approach. It consists of three components: an English syntactic parser, an English-Korean transfer and a Korean morphological generator. PEG (PLNLP English Grammar) is used as an English parser. Other components are witten is Common Lisp.