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In this paper we propose a functional treatment of bilingual alignment together with some new mathematical functions to describe sentential semantics transparently. We propose that every sentence is composed of two categories: kernel sentence and meta-sentence. Meta-sentence can be understood as a sentence structuring operator, while kernel sentence is a simple structured, mono-predicate sentence. Kernel sentence has obvious translation of canonical form, while meta-sentence represents logical-semantic structure of sentence which takes kernel sentence(s) as its dominating variable(s). From meta-sentences we can draw a lot of useful semantic information. We also show typical examples of meta-sentences obtained from typical Japanese short sentence known as “haiku”.
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Nitta, Y. (2012). Functional Treatment of Bilingual Alignment and Its Application to Semantic Processing. In: Gaol, F., Nguyen, Q. (eds) Proceedings of the 2011 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28314-7_30
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