Self-Correction of English Grammar in Chinese-to-English Machine Translation

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Language is the binding force of a nation and has served as the communication tool for its people. The diversification of languages among various nations in the world has created the language barrier which is one of the major causes for today's world disorder. Machine translation holds the key to solve the language barrier problem. We consider Chinese-to-English translation by computer because Chinese and English are certainly two of the most popular languages in the world. In this proposal we are concerned with an important aspect in Chinese-to-English by computer. After eight years of research, Julius T. Tou invented the CITAC computer for translating Chinese sentences and text into idiomatic English. CITAC (patent pending in US, PRC, UK), the world's first genuine Chinese translation machine, is an intelligent computer. However, due to the radical differences between the Chinese language and the English language, the English translation generated by CITAC is idiomatically correct but may be grammatically wrong for reasons to be explained in the proposal. To make the CITAC output of English grammatically correct, we propose to conduct research for the design of a self-correction scheme for English grammar improvement. When the propose research is completed, we anticipate that CITAC will become a full-fledged computer to translate Chinese sentences and text into perfect English. Thus, the potential application of the research are to make Chinese-to-English machine translation a reality, not just and academic endeavor. The success of the proposed research will beat the Japanese in machine translation research and will enable the United State to rule the roost in machine translation industry.//