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| Title | Collocation or Free Combination? ― Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in Japanese |
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| Authors | Lis Pereira, Elga Strafella and Yuji Matsumoto |
| Abstract | This work presents an initial investigation on how to distinguish collocations from free combinations. The assumption is that, while free combinations can be literally translated, the overall meaning of collocations is different from the sum of the translation of its parts. Based on that, we verify whether a machine translation system can help us perform such distinction. Results show that it improves the precision compared with standard methods of collocation identification through statistical association measures. |
| Topics | Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation, Tools, Systems, Applications |
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Collocation or Free Combination? ― Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in Japanese |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PEREIRA14.519, author = {Lis Pereira and Elga Strafella and Yuji Matsumoto}, title = {Collocation or Free Combination? ― Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in Japanese}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |