FDS Processing in Chinese - English Machine Translation

The outline of MT thought based on HNC is introduced in this paper. Then FDS (Formal Degraded Sentence) is defined and discussed according to Hierarchical Network of Concepts (HNC). Finally Some rules for processing FDS are conduced from the different modes to express FDS in Chinese and English respectively, and some tests of these rules in the current MT systems and artificial statistical analysis in large-scale real-text have been taken to manifest the importance of FDS processing.