Pronominal anaphora resolution in KANTOO English-to-Spanish machine translation system
Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, David Svoboda, Kathryn Baker
Abstract
We describe the automatic resolution of pronominal anaphora using KANT Controlled English (KCE) and the KANTOO English-to-Spanish MT system. Our algorithm is based on a robust, syntax-based approach that applies a set of restrictions and preferences to select the correct antecedent. We report a success rate of 89.6% on a training corpus with 289 anaphors, and 87.5% on held-out data containing 145 anaphors. Resolution of anaphors is important in translation, due to gender mismatches among languages; our approach translates anaphors to Spanish with 97.2% accuracy.- Anthology ID:
- 2001.mtsummit-papers.43
- Volume:
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII
- Month:
- September 18-22
- Year:
- 2001
- Address:
- Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Editor:
- Bente Maegaard
- Venue:
- MTSummit
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- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2001.mtsummit-papers.43
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Enrique Torrejon, David Svoboda, and Kathryn Baker. 2001. Pronominal anaphora resolution in KANTOO English-to-Spanish machine translation system. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Cite (Informal):
- Pronominal anaphora resolution in KANTOO English-to-Spanish machine translation system (Mitamura et al., MTSummit 2001)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2001.mtsummit-papers.43.pdf