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  <Title>Toward Multi-Engine Machine Translation</Title>
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1. INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A number of proposals have come up in recent years for hybridization of MT. Current MT projects -- both &amp;quot;pure&amp;quot; and hybrid, both predominantly technology-oriented and research-oriented are singleengine 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.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It is common knowledge that MT systems, whatever translation method they at present employ, do not reach an optimum output on free text. In part, this is due to the inherent problems of a particular method - for instance, the inability of statistics-based MT to take into account long-distance dependencies or the reliance of most transfer-oriented MT systems on similarities in syntactic structures of the source and the target languages. Another crucial source of deficiencies is the size and quality of the static knowledge sources underlying the various MT systems - pmlicular grammars, lexicons and world models. Thus, in knowledge-based MT the size of the underlying world model is typically smaller than necessary for secure coverage of free text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Our hypothesis for the experiment reported in this paper is that if an MT environment can use the best results from a variety of MT systems working simultaneously on the same text, the overall quality will improve. Using this novel approach to MT in the latest version of the Pangloss MT project, we submit an input text to a battery of machine translation systems (engines), collect their (possibly, incomplete) results in a joint chart-like data structure and select the overall best translation using a set of simple heuristics.</Paragraph>
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