Automated Translation of Chinese-to-English Creative Literature

Abstract

Preliminary research reveals that current work in the machine translation of Chinese-to-English focuses entirely on a statistical approach. This approach does not allow for a culturally-sensitive translation with regards to the source language, as meaning is often lost through metaphor or folklore references. This project explored the option of compiling a database to allow for the corpora analysis of creative works previously translated and employing an example-based approach to translation in conjunction with the currently popular statistical approach.