English to chinese translation of prepositions

Authors:
Hui Li;Nathalie Japkowicz;Caroline Barrière
Affiliations:
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Venue:
AI'05 Proceedings of the 18th Canadian Society conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Machine translation of prepositions is a difficult task; little work has been done, to date, in this area This article suggests addressing the problem using a semantic framework for the interpretation of the surrounding elements of a preposition in the source language This framework, called Use Types, will reduce the set of possible prepositions in the target language, therefore helping the translation process This approach is not language dependent, but we focus, here, on English and Chinese, and we also specifically look at three prepositions: in, on and at The article describes machine learning experiments designed and conducted in which WordNet is employed to lead to an automatic discovery of the Use Types Results are analyzed and discussed and a practical use of the system is suggested along with the preliminary results it obtains.