Abstract
Negation and modality are two important grammatical phenomena that have attracted recent research attention as they can contribute to extra-propositional meaning aspects, among with factuality, attribution, irony and sarcasm. These aspects go beyond analysis such as semantic role labeling, and modeling them is important as a step towards a higher level of language understanding, which is needed for practical applications such as sentiment analysis. In this talk, I will go beyond English, and I will discuss how negation and modality are expressed in other languages. I will also go beyond sentiment analysis and I will present some challenges that the two phenomena pose for machine translation (MT). In particular, I will demonstrate how contemporary MT systems fail on them, and I will discuss some possible solutions.- Anthology ID:
- W16-5005
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Eduardo Blanco, Roser Morante, Roser Saurí
- Venue:
- EXprom
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 41
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-5005
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Preslav Nakov. 2016. Negation and Modality in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM), page 41, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Negation and Modality in Machine Translation (Nakov, EXprom 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/W16-5005.pdf