- Sergei Nirenburg, R. Frederking, David Farwell, Yorick Wilks. 1994. Two Types of Adaptive MT Environments. Abstract: A number of proposal have come up in recent years for hybridization of MT. Current MT projects --- both "pure" and hybrid, both predominantly technology-oriented and scientific (including those currently funded by NSF) are single-engine projects, capable of one particular type of source text analysis, one particular method of finding target language correspondences for source language elements and one prescribed method of generating the target language text. While such projects can be quite useful, we believe that it is time to make the next step in the design of machine translation systems and to move toward adaptive, multiple-engine systems. We describe the architecture of an adaptive multi-engine MT system which uses each of the engines under the circumstances which are most favorable for its success.
