Conceptual Basis of the Lexicon in Machine Translation

Conceptual Basis of the Lexicon in Machine Translation PDF Author: Bonnie Jean Dorr
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Category : Arc pair grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Abstract: "This report describes the organization and content of lexical information required for the task of machine translation. In particular, the lexical-conceptual basis for UNITRAN, an implemented machine translation system, will be described. UNITRAN uses an underlying form called lexical conceptual structure to perform two difficult, but crucial, tasks: lexical selection (i.e., choosing the appropriate target-language terms for a given source-language sentence) and syntactic realization (i.e., mapping an underlying lexical representation to a corresponding syntactic structure)