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Generic Parsing and Hybrid Transfer in Automatic Translation

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Natural Language Processing — NLP 2000 (NLP 2000)

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In this paper, we describe an automatic traslation system involving French, Italian, English and German. The technique used in this project consists of the classical steps parsing-transfer-generation. Input sentences are parsed by a generic, multilingual parser based on the Principles & Parameters Theory of Chomsky’s Generative Grammar. The transfer mechanism acts on hybrid structures that mix lexical items with abstract semantic information. Finally, a principle-based generator produces correct output sentences.

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  1. Laboratoire d’analyse et de technologie du langage (LATL) Département de Linguistique, Université de Genève, USA

    Christopher Laenzlinger, Sébastien L’haire & Juri Mengon

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    Dimitris N. Christodoulakis

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Laenzlinger, C., L’haire, S., Mengon, J. (2000). Generic Parsing and Hybrid Transfer in Automatic Translation. In: Christodoulakis, D.N. (eds) Natural Language Processing — NLP 2000. NLP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1835. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45154-4_29

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