Port4NooJ: Portuguese Linguistic Module and Bilingual Resources for Machine Translation

Abstract

This presentation will focus on Port4NooJ, the open source NooJ Portuguese linguistic module, which integrates a bilingual extension for Portuguese-English machine translation, work in progress. It describes the main components of the module, particularly, the electronic dictionaries, the rules which formalize and document Portuguese inflectional and derivational descriptions, and the different types of grammar: morphological, disambiguation, syntactic-semantic, multiword expressions and translation grammars. It explains how the different components interact and shows the application of the linguistic resources to text.