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

语言是一个民族的凝聚力，是人民沟通的工具。世界各国语言的多样化造成了语言障碍，这是当今世界混乱的主要原因之一。机器翻译是解决语言障碍问题的关键。我们考虑用计算机进行汉英翻译，因为汉语和英语无疑是世界上最流行的两种语言。在这个建议中，我们关注的是计算机汉英转换的一个重要方面。经过八年的研究，朱利叶斯发明了CITAC计算机，用于将中文句子和文本翻译成地道的英语。CITAC（正在美国、中国、英国申请专利）是世界上第一台真正意义上的中文翻译机，是一款智能计算机。然而，由于汉英语言的根本差异，CITAC生成的英文翻译在习惯上是正确的，但在语法上可能存在错误，原因在提案中解释。为了使CITAC输出的英语语法正确，我们提出设计一种英语语法改进自纠方案的研究。当这项研究完成后，我们预计CITAC将成为一个成熟的计算机，可以将中文句子和文本翻译成完美的英语。因此，该研究的潜在应用是使汉英机器翻译成为现实，而不仅仅是学术上的努力。这项研究的成功将在机器翻译研究方面击败日本人，使美国在机器翻译行业占据统治地位

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.//