Dealing with conjunctions in a machine translation environment

  • Authors:
  • Xiuming Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • EACL '83 Proceedings of the first conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A set of rules, named CSDC (Conjunct Scope Determination Constraints), is suggested for attacking the conjunct scope problem, the major issue in the automatic processing of conjunctions which has been raising great difficulty for natural language processing systems. Grammars embodying the CSDC are incorporated into an existing ATN parser, and are tested successfully against a wide group of "and" conjunctive sentences, which are of three types, namely clausal coordination, phrasal coordination, and gapping. With phrasal coordination the structure with two NPs coordinated by "and" has been given most attention.It is hoped that an ATN parser capable of dealing with a large variety of conjunctions in an efficient way will finally emerge from the present work.