Abstract
This paper describes some difficulties associated with the translation of numbers (scalars) used for counting, measuring, or selecting items or properties. A set of problematic issues is described, and the presence of these difficulties is quantified by examining a set of texts and translations. An approach to a solution is suggested.- Anthology ID:
- 2004.amta-papers.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers
- Month:
- September 28 - October 2
- Year:
- 2004
- Address:
- Washington, USA
- Editors:
- Robert E. Frederking, Kathryn B. Taylor
- Venue:
- AMTA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Note:
- Pages:
- 86–93
- Language:
- URL:
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30194-3_10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell. 2004. Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, pages 86–93, Washington, USA. Springer.
- Cite (Informal):
- Counting, measuring, ordering: translation problems and solutions (Helmreich & Farwell, AMTA 2004)
- PDF:
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30194-3_10