A Multi-Level Approach to Interlingual MT: Defining the Interface between Representational Languages (0)
| Venue: | International Journal of Expert Systems |
| Citations: | 6 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Dorr_amulti-level,
author = {Bonnie J. Dorr and Clare R. Voss},
title = {A Multi-Level Approach to Interlingual MT: Defining the Interface between Representational Languages},
journal = {International Journal of Expert Systems},
year = {},
volume = {9},
pages = {9--1}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes a multi-level design, i.e., a non-uniform approach to interlingual machine translation (MT), in which distinct representational languages are used for different types of knowledge. We demonstrate that a linguistically-motivated "division of labor" across multiple representation levels has not complicated, but rather has readily facilitated, the identification and construction of systematic relations at the interface between each level. Our approach assumes an interlingua derived from the lexical semantics and predicate decomposition approaches of Jackendoff (1983; 1990) and Levin and Rappaport-Hovav (1995a; 1995b). We describe a model of interpretation and representation of natural language sentences which has been implemented as part of an interlingual MT system called PRINCITRAN.
