The Treatment of Complex English Nominalizations in Machine Translation

This paper concerns the treatment, in the context of machine translation, of English complex nominal groups which can be considered as nominalizations of verb phrases. We discuss the fact that many styles of English prose which are suitable for translation by machine typically favor the use of nomin...

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Published in:Computers and Translation 1988-03, Vol.3 (1), p.3-21
Main Authors: Somers, Harold, Hirakawa, Hideki, Miike, Seiji, Amano, Shinya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambiguity
Computational linguistics
Exact sciences and technology
General aspects
Grammatical constructions
Information and communication sciences
Information processing and retrieval
Information science. Documentation
Language translation
Machine translation
Nominalization
Nouns
Sciences and techniques of general use
Syntactics
Verbs
Water consumption
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Summary:This paper concerns the treatment, in the context of machine translation, of English complex nominal groups which can be considered as nominalizations of verb phrases. We discuss the fact that many styles of English prose which are suitable for translation by machine typically favor the use of nominal rather than verbal syntagms. But such constructions when translated literally are often considered unnatural. The general problem is described in detail, with examples. The more specific problem of recognizing nominalizations and analyzing their structure is considered. How and where to achieve the required syntactic 'transformation' is discussed, and exemplified.
ISSN:0884-0709
0922-6567
2331-351X
1573-0573
DOI:10.1007/BF02057966