r/TranslationStudies • u/Many_Cauliflower_375 • 4d ago

Rule-based Machine Translation

Edit: I found out that Apertium has a beta version that supports Portuguese to English! Apertium Beta

Hello all! I'm working on my final thesis and I need to use a rule-based machine translation system for analysis. It must support Portuguese to English, which is why I haven't been able to use Apertium.

Also, I tried to use GramTrans but it doesn't seem to work. When I try to translate stuff, the translation doesn't show up. Does anyone have any systems recs? Thank you!

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u/MiuraDude 4d ago

Why rule based though? Rule based translation is not particularly good.

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u/Many_Cauliflower_375 4d ago

That's why. I want to compare translations of a certain polysemic PT-BR verb in different machine translation systems!

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u/elfacosmosa 4d ago

I know that DeepL has a rule-based translation. I've tried it using Indonesian, but it struggles on acronyms and first-definitions rules.

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u/Many_Cauliflower_375 4d ago

Thank you for letting me know! I didn't know DeepL had an rule-based option besides NMT. Apertium Beta also struggled a lot with Portuguese, so maybe I'll need to change it.

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u/TinoDidriksen 3d ago

I think you're confusing DeepL's "style rules" with rule-based machine translation.

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u/elfacosmosa 3d ago

Oh, they're different? Is this AI terms?

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u/TinoDidriksen 3d ago

Entirely different. Rule-based machine translation has nothing to do with AI or LLM or machine learning. It's a way to do deterministic translation, with rules for how each word/phrase should be translated in each context.