Multilingual vs bilingual MT systems.

Unidirectional and bidirectional MT systems.

Presented by
Yana Zaiets and
Viktoriia Sirochuk
Group 2.1
 Multilingual MT
Bilingual Mt system
system

Language A Language A

Language B Language E
Language B

A bilingual system is one

designed to translate from one
Language C Language D language into one other in a
single direction.
 bilingual systems

uni-directional bi-directional

Language A Language A

Language B Language B
 THE DEFINITION OF A MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM

A system involving more than two languages is a

multilingual system. At one extreme a multilingual
system might be designed for a large number of
languages in every combination, as is the case of the
European Commission's Eurotra project, where the
aim is to provide for translation from and to the nine
languages of the European Communities in all
directions. A more modest multilingual system might
translate from English into three other languages in
one direction only.
THE MAIN FEATURE OF A MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM

In a 'true' multilingual system not only analysis

and generation components for particular
languages would remain constant whatever the
other languages involved, but there would be a
common linguistic approach applied to all the
languages in the system, and there would be a
common use of software as well.
Advantages and disadvantages
 Multilingual MT system

 Advantages (+)
1) Prosperous
2) Online/offline efficiency
3) Can adopt to different
languages
 Disadvantages (-)
1) Imperfect
2) Single model of translation
3) Inappropriate for all the
languages
 Bilingual MT system

 Advantages (+)
 Disadvantages (-)
1) Progressing
2) More versatile translation 1) Imperfect
3) Various models for one language 2) Only online efficiency
3) Hard to develop
 Unidirectional vs Bidirectional MT systems
 Unidirectional MT is a translation which can be translated only from source
language to target language

ENG UKR

 Bidirectional MT is a translation which can be either translated from source

language to target language and vice versa

ENG UKR
Unidirectional MT system

 Advantages (+)  Disadvantages (-)

1) Fast-developing 1) One-sided
2) Reliable translation 2) Sometimes inconvenient
3) Sufficient stock of certain 3) Unpopular in MT
lexicon
Bidirectional MT system

 Advantages (+)
 Disadvantages (-)
1) Two-sided
2) Popular in MT 1) Limited in languages
3) Always developing 2) Not ideal
3) Sometimes inappropriate
translation
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