A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text

Details A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text

1997-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9706024v1

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Machine Translation (TMI '97), Santa Fe, NM, 23-25 Ju

Computer Science

Computation and Language

11 pages, LaTeX, uses tmi.sty

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Colloquial English (CE) as found in television programs or typical conversations is different than text found in technical manuals, newspapers and books. Phrases tend to be shorter and less sophisticated. In this paper, we look at some of the theoretical and implementational issues involved in translating CE. We present a fully automatic large-scale multilingual natural language processing system for translation of CE input text, as found in the commercially transmitted closed-caption television signal, into simple target sentences. Our approach is based on the Whitelock's Shake and Bake machine translation paradigm, which relies heavily on lexical resources. The system currently translates from English to Spanish with the translation modules for Brazilian Portuguese under development.

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