Spanish EuroWordNet and LCS-based interlingual MT

Bonnie J. Dorr, M. Antonia Martí, Irene Castellón


Abstract
We present a machine translation framework in which the interlingua— Lexical Conceptual Structure (LCS)—is coupled with a definitional component that includes bilingual (EuroWordNet) links between words in the source and target languages. While the links between individual words are language-specific, the LCS is designed to be a language-independent, compositional representation. We take the view that the two types of information—shallower, transfer-like knowledge as well as deeper, compositional knowledge—can be reconciled in interlingual machine translation, the former for overcoming the intractability of LCS-based lexical selec- tion, and the latter for relating the underlying semantics of two words cross-linguistically. We describe the acquisition process for these two information types and present results of hand-verification of the acquired lexicon. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of the two information types in interlingual MT.
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1997.mtsummit-workshop.3
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AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlinguas
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October 28
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1997
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San Diego, California
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19–31
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Bonnie J. Dorr, M. Antonia Martí, and Irene Castellón. 1997. Spanish EuroWordNet and LCS-based interlingual MT. In AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlinguas, pages 19–31, San Diego, California.
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