Towards a thesaurus of predicates

We propose a thesaurus of predicates that can help to resolve pre-editing and/or post-editing problems in machine translation environments. It differs from earlier approaches such as conventional dictionaries in that we are aiming to link a wide range of near-synonyms a...

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Main Authors: Shirai, Satoshi, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Bond, Francis, Tanaka, Hozumi
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Language:English
Published: 2011
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-922602019-12-06T18:20:11Z Towards a thesaurus of predicates Shirai, Satoshi Yamamoto, Kazuhide Bond, Francis Tanaka, Hozumi School of Humanities and Social Sciences International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (3rd : 2002) DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics We propose a thesaurus of predicates that can help to resolve pre-editing and/or post-editing problems in machine translation environments. It differs from earlier approaches such as conventional dictionaries in that we are aiming to link a wide range of near-synonyms and paraphrases. We are compiling such similar examples through both introspection and the use of translation data, giving us a large collection of monolingual and bilingual equivalences. This thesaurus enables the following machine translation techniques. (a) Unification of synonymous expressions in the source language (source language paraphrasing). (b) Conversion of homonymous expressions to more easily translated ones (source language rewriting). (c) Development of expressions appearing in the target language into various expressions (target language paraphrasing). Accepted version 2011-10-17T01:05:52Z 2019-12-06T18:20:11Z 2011-10-17T01:05:52Z 2019-12-06T18:20:11Z 2002 2002 Conference Paper Shirai, S., Yamamoto, K., Bond, F., & Tanaka, H. (2002). Towards a thesaurus of predicates. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp.1965-1972. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92260 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7272 155584 en © 2002 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 8 p.
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Shirai, Satoshi
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Bond, Francis
Tanaka, Hozumi
Towards a thesaurus of predicates
description We propose a thesaurus of predicates that can help to resolve pre-editing and/or post-editing problems in machine translation environments. It differs from earlier approaches such as conventional dictionaries in that we are aiming to link a wide range of near-synonyms and paraphrases. We are compiling such similar examples through both introspection and the use of translation data, giving us a large collection of monolingual and bilingual equivalences. This thesaurus enables the following machine translation techniques. (a) Unification of synonymous expressions in the source language (source language paraphrasing). (b) Conversion of homonymous expressions to more easily translated ones (source language rewriting). (c) Development of expressions appearing in the target language into various expressions (target language paraphrasing).
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