A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text

Simple item page
dc.creatorPopowich, Fred
dc.creatorTurcato, Davide
dc.creatorLaurens, Olivier
dc.creatorMcFetridge, Paul
dc.creatorNicholson, J. Devlan
dc.creatorMcGivern, Patrick
dc.creatorPena, Maricela Corzo
dc.creatorPidruchney, Lisa
dc.creatorMacDonald, Scott
dc.date1997-06-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:10:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:10:52Z
dc.descriptionColloquial English (CE) as found in television programs or typical conversations is different than text found in technical manuals, newspapers and books. Phrases tend to be shorter and less sophisticated. In this paper, we look at some of the theoretical and implementational issues involved in translating CE. We present a fully automatic large-scale multilingual natural language processing system for translation of CE input text, as found in the commercially transmitted closed-caption television signal, into simple target sentences. Our approach is based on the Whitelock's Shake and Bake machine translation paradigm, which relies heavily on lexical resources. The system currently translates from English to Spanish with the translation modules for Brazilian Portuguese under development.
dc.description11 pages, LaTeX, uses tmi.sty
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9706024
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9706024
dc.identifierProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Machine Translation (TMI '97), Santa Fe, NM, 23-25 July 1997.
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151483
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleA Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv