Analysis of Current Commercial Japanese to Korean Machine Translation Systems and Suggestions for Future Development

Abstract

This Report describes the status and performance of current Janpanese-to-Korean Machine Translation Systems. And some suggestions for developing the better systems are made. This result is made by analyzing the latest version of four commercial Japanese-to-Korean Machine Translation Systems in Korea which have been produced until Feburary 1997. Declarative evaluation is executed in the view of user side to measure the translation quality. Typological evaluation is tried to probe the linguistic coverage of current commercial systems. Operational evaluation is performed in the view of user interface. And progress evaluation is executed by comparing the result with the result reported at (Choi and Kim.1996). This report does not intend to rank the relative standing of the systems. The evaluations are executed in the range of interest of this report.