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Disambiguating temporal-contrastive connectives for machine translation

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Temporal–contrastive discourse connectives (although, while, since, etc.) signal various types of relations between clauses such as tem-poral, contrast, concession and cause. They are often ambiguous and therefore difficult to translate from one language to another. We discuss several new and translation-oriented experiments for the disambiguation of a spe-cific subset of discourse connectives in order to correct some of the translation errors made by current statistical machine translation sys-tems. 1

Source: Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Author: Thomas Meyer

Institution: Idiap Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Award: Improving the coherence of machine translation output by modeling intersentential relations

OpenAlex ID: W2102266290