@inproceedings{neumann-1999-towards,
    title = "Towards an interlingual treatment of modality",
    author = "Neumann, Christoph",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII",
    month = sep # " 13-17",
    year = "1999",
    address = "Singapore, Singapore",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/1999.mtsummit-1.93/",
    pages = "625--632",
    abstract = "Modality is an important, but complex linguistic phenomenon that concerns all levels of language production. NLP research has rather refrained from this subject, but we show that many errors in machine translation systems are directly related to the absence of a proper interlingual treatment of modality. We outline the traces of such a modal interlingua by presenting the {\textquotedblleft}Module of Modality{\textquotedblright}, parts of which are currently being implemented in a Japanese-English system."
}