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Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications

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Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future (AMTA 2000)

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This paper addresses the problem of building conceptual resources for multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a Chinese-English lexicon for verbs, using thematic-role information to create links between Chinese and English conceptual information. We then present an approach to compensating for gaps in the existing resources. The resulting lexicon is used for multilingual applications such as machine translation and cross-language information retrieval.

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  1. Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742

    Bonnie J. Dorr & Gina-Anne Levow

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2H1, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Dekang Lin

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Dorr, B.J., Levow, GA., Lin, D. (2000). Building a Chinese-English Mapping Between Verb Concepts for Multilingual Applications. In: White, J.S. (eds) Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future. AMTA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39965-8_1

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