![]() The word building mechanism of Tamil has been outlined to facilitate lexical transfer. ![]() With the help of these patterns it is hoped to get the parsed trees of English sentences in terms of words, phrases and clauses that can be converted into Tamil-oriented parsed trees that is liable for structural and lexical transfer. All the sentential patterns of English have been identified. The constituent structures of NP, VP, Adj. The word building, phrase building, clause building and sentence building mechanisms of English have been investigated. The ways by which parsing can be performed on the English text and get the needed parsed tree for lexical and structural transfer have been identified. The architecture of sentence building mechanism of English has been studied thoroughly. These transfer rules can be used to map the English structure into Tamil Structure and vice versa. As English and Tamil belongs to two different types of language groups, that is English as predominantly SVO patterned language and Tamil a predominantly SOV patterned language showing unique characteristics which differentiate them drastically from one another, it is possible to manipulate these differences to form transfer rules. This helps us to map one language structure into another language structure. A transfer grammar is an important component in a machine translation system. A transfer grammar for machine translation has to be prepared using these computational syntactic structure analyses. These computational syntactic structure analyses are different form ordinary syntactic structure analyses in the sense that the computational syntactic structures are viable for computational processing. For this purpose the computable syntactic structures of English and Tamil have been worked out. Here we narrow down our efforts just to correlate syntactic structure of English with that of Tamil from the point of view preparing a transfer grammar for English-Tamil machine translation. Harris has proposed an elaborate methodology to prepare a transfer grammar (His idea of transfer grammar has been explained below under the heading “Transfer Grammar”. Presently we are interested in preparing a transfer grammar for English Tamil MT. We became aware of it recently due to our involvement in machine translation (MT). Even in 1954 Harris discusses about the importance transfer grammar in the context of translation, machine translation, language teaching and language learning. ![]() The concept of transfer grammar is not a recent phenomenon. ![]()
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