Toward Language-dependent Applications

  • Authors:
  • Diana Santos

  • Affiliations:
  • SINTEF Telecom and Informatics,Postboks 124, Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway E-mail: Diana.Santos@informatics.sintef.no

  • Venue:
  • Machine Translation
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Is adaptation of English NLP applications the right way to gomultilingual? Should one prefer ``language-independent'' systems with aview to applying them to a large number of different languages? Experience from the processing of Portuguese in several differentareas (part-of-speech tagging, corpus tools, lexical decomposition,machine translation, etc.) suggests that neither of these offers a satisfactory solution.This paper argues for a thorough study of the way individual languageswork in order to develop applications suited for the language inquestion, i.e., ``language-dependent'' systems.