Summary of the paper
| Title | Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages |
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| Authors | Daiga Deksne, Raivis Skadins and Inguna Skadina |
| Abstract | Treatment of Multiword Expressions (MWEs) is one of the most complicated issues in natural language processing, especially in Machine Translation (MT). The paper presents dictionary of MWEs for a English-Latvian MT system, demonstrating a way how MWEs could be handled for inflected languages with rich morphology and rather free word order. The proposed dictionary of MWEs consists of two constituents: a lexicon of phrases and a set of MWE rules. The lexicon of phrases is rather similar to translation lexicon of the MT system, while MWE rules describe syntactic structure of the source and target sentence allowing correct transformation of different MWE types into the target language and ensuring correct syntactic structure. The paper demonstrates this approach on different MWE types, starting from simple syntactic structures, followed by more complicated cases and including fully idiomatic expressions. Automatic evaluation shows that the described approach increases the quality of translation by 0.6 BLEU points. |
| Language | Multiple languages |
| Topics | MultiWord Expressions & Collocations, Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation, Lexicon, lexical database |
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Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DEKSNE08.353, author = {Daiga Deksne, Raivis Skadins and Inguna Skadina}, title = {Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |