Large Scale Language Independent Generation Using Thematic Hierarchies (2001)
| Venue: | in MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Santiago de |
| Citations: | 2 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Habash01largescale,
author = {Nizar Habash and Bonnie Dorr},
title = {Large Scale Language Independent Generation Using Thematic Hierarchies},
booktitle = {in MT Summit VIII: Machine Translation in the Information Age, Santiago de},
year = {2001},
pages = {139--144}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes a large-scale languageindependent evaluation of the use of Thematic Hierarchies in natural language generation. We translate from a corpus of sentences reflecting the full variety of behavior of Levin-based verb classes. The corpus is used as input to a generation system that utilizes the same thematic hierarchy for realizing relative argument surface positions in two languages: English and Spanish. The output was manually evaluated by English and Spanish speakers. The contributions of this work include: (1) an improved thematic hierarchy over an earlier implementation; (2) a large-scale evaluation of the use of thematic hierarchies in two languages; (3) an implementation of a language independent module for natural language generation; and (4) the creation of a single tool for incremental development of multilingual lexicons.
