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From Syntactic Encodings to Thematic Roles: Building Lexical Entries for Interlingual MT (1995)
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@MISC{Dorr95fromsyntactic,
author = {Bonnie J. Dorr and Joseph Garman and Amy Weinberg},
title = {From Syntactic Encodings to Thematic Roles: Building Lexical Entries for Interlingual MT},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
. Our goal is to construct large-scale lexicons for interlingual MT of English, Arabic, Korean, and Spanish. We describe techniques that predict salient linguistic features of a nonEnglish word using the features of its English gloss (i.e., translation) in a bilingual dictionary. While not exact, owing to inexact glosses and language-to-language variations, these techniques can augmentan existing dictionary with reasonable accuracy, thus saving significant time. We have conducted two experiments that demonstrate the value of these techniques. The first tested the feasibility of building a database of thematic grids for over 6500 Arabic verbs based on a mapping between English glosses and the syntactic codes in Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) (Procter, 1978). We show that it is more efficient and less error-prone to hand-verify the automatically constructed grids than it would be to build the thematic grids by hand from scratch. The second experiment tested the auto...
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interlingual mt syntactic encoding thematic role building lexical entry thematic grid english gloss arabic verb second experiment contemporary english constructed grid language-to-language variation syntactic code reasonable accuracy bilingual dictionary large-scale lexicon nonenglish word salient linguistic feature significant time
