... A Pattern -based Machine Translation System Extended by Example -based Processing Hideo Watanabe and Koichi Takeda IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa ... Kanagawa 242-8502, Japan {watanabe,takeda} @trl.ibm.co.jp Abstract In this paper, we describe a machine translation system called PalmTree which uses the "pattern- based& quot; approach ... is a translation pattern of an English colloquial phrase "take a look at," and (p2) and (p3) are general syntactic translation patterns. In the above patterns, a left-half part (like...