Interlingual Annotation for MT Development

Reeder, Florence; Dorr, Bonnie J.; Farwell, David; Habash, Nizar; Helmreich, Stephen; Hovy, Eduard; Levin, Lori; Mitamura, Teruko; Miller, Keith J.; Rambow, Owen; Siddharthan, Advaith

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30194-3_26

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“…2 Our focus was on the annotation of the English translations of each source-language text where divergences are already readily apparent and interannotator agreement is more easily measured; although source-language annotation was also conducted, the results are not the focus of this study, but will be examined in a future. 3 Different aspects of this work have been published previously (Dorr et al 2004;Farwell et al 2004;Mitamura et al 2004;Reeder et al 2004;Rambow et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 81%

Interlingual annotation of parallel text corpora: a new framework for annotation and evaluation

Dorr¹,

Passonneau²,

Farwell³

et al. 2010

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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This paper focuses on an important step in the creation of a system of meaning representation and the development of semantically annotated parallel corpora, for use in applications such as machine translation, question answering, text summarization, and information retrieval. The work described below constitutes the first effort of any kind to annotate multiple translations of foreign-language texts with interlingual content. Three levels of representation are introduced: deep syntactic dependencies (IL0), intermediate semantic representations (IL1), and a normalized representation that unifies conversives, nonliteral language, and paraphrase (IL2). The resulting annotated, multilingually induced, parallel corpora will be useful as an empirical basis for a wide range of research, including the development and evaluation of interlingual NLP systems and paraphrase-extraction systems as well as a host of other research and development efforts in theoretical and applied linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, translation studies, and other related disciplines.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Interlingual annotation of parallel text corpora: a new framework for annotation and evaluation

Dorr¹,

Passonneau²,

Farwell³

et al. 2010

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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“…The burden of such an intense and detailed knowledge-based conceptual modelling can only be afforded in specific domains and for a limited number of language pairs. Current interlinguas are illustrated by the IAMTC already mentioned (Reeder et al 2004). The IAMTC interlingua resorts to a progressive definition of the interlingua as long as it is needed.…”

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A Novel Approach to Creating Disambiguated Multilingual Dictionaries

Boguslavsky

Cardeñosa

Gallardo

2007

Applied Linguistics

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Multilingual lexicons are needed in various applications, such as cross-lingual information retrieval, machine translation and some others. Often, these applications suffer from the ambiguity of dictionary items, especially when an intermediate natural language is involved in the process of the dictionary construction, since this language adds its ambiguity to the ambiguity of working languages. This paper aims at proposing a new method for producing multilingual dictionaries without the risk of introducing additional ambiguity. As a disambiguated intermediate language we use the so-called Universal Words. A set of more than 200,000 unambiguous Universal Words have been constructed automatically on the basis of the well-known English lexical database WordNet. This approach is being used for the construction of a five language-dictionary in the field of cultural heritage within the framework of the PATRILEX project sponsored by the Spanish Research Council.

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“…A second example, the Prague Dependency Treebank (Hajic et al, 2001), has annotated a large Czech corpus with several levels of (tectogrammatical) representation, including parts of speech, syntax, and topic/focus information structure. Finally, the IL-Annotation project (Reeder et al, 2004) focused on the representations required to support a series of increasingly semantic phenomena across seven languages (Arabic, Hindi, English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and French). In intent and in many details, OntoNotes is compatible with all these efforts, which may one day all participate in a larger multilingual corpus integration effort.…”

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confidence: 99%