What I mean is something that can analyze the syntax of a given plain-english (!) sentence and break it down into the appropriate parts of speech:
"He went to the grocery store"
might be broken down as such:
He: Subject
went: Verb
to the grocery store: Prepositional phrase
to: Preposition
the: Definite article
grocery: Adjective
store: Object of preposition...and other such joys. Simple subject/verb/object or subject/verb/adjective constructions shouldn't be a big deal ("Warren is insane") but for compound and complex sentences I'm not quite sure how to really begin the approach. Though in some ways the compound/complex parsing wouldn't really be all that different from the basic parsing; it would, however, have to know when it was looking at such a construction before it could break it into its smaller components.
Obviously there'd have to be a dictionary as well that could recognize individual words and slot them into their likely categories based on context. That's not a big problem either (just tedious to produce).
The idea is that this would be some kind of code that could be used to generate a pre-translation table of words, which would then be converted into another language. (That's not all that difficult to conceive either; it's simply an output generator based on the input... it's the input side of things that I'm most interested in...)
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