Question:
i am doing a research in language translation
(from english to myanmar language). The firsh step of my thesis is to
implement an english language parser to parse input english language
into its AST form. Is there any english grammar rules to use in english
language parser(compiler)?
Answer:
AST (augmented syntax trees) sounds like you are working from some
/very/ old literature. I haven't heard about them since the 80's.
Your thesis is going to be much harder than it sounds like you are
ready for. Building a parser for any significant piece of English that
produces suitable output for translation into a very different language
like Myanmar is a very large task.
Most modern language translation efforts use a combination of
relatively simple parsing together with various statistical insights
obtained by examination of (preferably) parallel corpora.
It also is important to decide what the goals of your translation
system are. If you are trying to build a system that helps human
translators, then you probably be best off just building a good
bi-lingual text retrieval system that can serve as a translation
memory.
Otherwise, I recommend you read more of the literature on recent
translation systems.
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