An MT-Oriented Study of Corresponding Lexical Chunks in Business Correspondences from English to Chinese

This book sheds new light on chunk in business correspondence in order to promote the advancement of machine translation. By presenting a bilingual chunk table for correspondence and providing basic theoretical and empirical data on the construction of an MT-based English-Chinese chunk bank for business correspondence, it seeks to improve the accuracy of machine translation systems in a new way. It mainly addresses two questions: (1) How can business English correspondence chunks be defined in machine translation? (2) What are the correspondences between English-Chinese business letter chunks for machine translation? 

With the aid of a parallel corpus, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and the construction grammar theory, the book puts forward a theoretical model of chunk composition analysis. Further, the findings presented here can be used for the machine translation of English-Chinese business letters, helping to break down communication barriers and promote international business and exchanges. 

Hu Fumao is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include computational linguistics, corpus translation, etc. He mainly teaches Business English, Comprehensive English, English for Business Communications, and Business English Negotiations. He attended the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth installments of the China International Business English Symposium. He has presided over more than 10 humanities and social science projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China and two field projects on curriculum and teaching resource sharing. In addition, he has published 18 papers in core journals for foreign language majors, three monographs and translated books, and won 10 outstanding achievement awards from the Ministry of Education of China.