Practical glossing by prioritised tiling

  • Authors:
  • Victor Poznanski;Pete Whitelock;Jan IJdens;Steffan Corley

  • Affiliations:
  • Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom;Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom;Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom;Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We present the design of a practical context-sensitive glosser, incorporating current techniques for lightweight linguistic analysis based on large-scale lexical resources. We outline a general model for ranking the possible translations of the words and expressions that make up a text. This information can be used by a simple resource-bounded algorithm, of complexity O(n log n) in sentence length, that determines a consistent gloss of best translations. We then describe how the results of the general ranking model may be approximated using a simple heuristic prioritisation scheme. Finally we present a preliminary evaluation of the glosser's performance.