An online tutoring system for language translation

Our interactive intelligent language tutoring system acquires Japanese-English technical translations over the Internet. The system consists of an augmented transition network-based template, a global-matching algorithm embedded in the template structure, a parts-of-speech tagged parser, and a visual interface authoring tool. Acquiring key English patterns greatly simplifies the template structure, which effectively controls an exponential explosion in the number of possible combinations inherent in many natural language applications.