@inproceedings{farwell-helmreich-2001-towards,
    title = "Towards pragmatics-based machine translation",
    author = "Farwell, David  and
      Helmreich, Stephen",
    booktitle = "Workshop on MT2010: Towards a Road Map for MT",
    month = sep # " 18-22",
    year = "2001",
    address = "Santiago de Compostela, Spain",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2001.mtsummit-road.2",
    abstract = "We propose a program of research which has as its goal establishing a framework and methodology for investigating the pragmatic aspects of the translation process and implementing a computational platform for carrying out systematic experiments on the pragmatics of translation. The program has four components. First, on the basis of a comparative study of multiple translations of the same document into a single target language, a pragmatics-based computational model is to be developed in which reasoning about the beliefs of the participants in the translation task and about the content of a text are central. Second, existing Natural Language Processing technologies are to be appraised as potential components of a computational platform that supports investigations into the effects of pragmatics on translation. Third, the platform is to be assembled and prototype translation systems implemented which conform to the pragmatics-based computational model of translation. Finally, a novel evaluation methodology is to be developed and evaluations of the systems carried out.",
}