Using underspecification in interactive translation systems
Björn Gambäck · 1998
Ambiguities concerning for example quantifier scope and anaphoric reference are known to be problematic for language processing systems. Resolving the ambiguities might lead to the well known combinatorial explosion puzzle. In applications like transfer-based machine translation, resolution of scope can be avoided if the translation takes place at a semantic representational level that encodes scopal ambiguites: the idea is to have a common representation for all of the possible interpretations of an ambiguous expression, as in [1]. Scopal ambiguities in the source language can then be carried over to the target language. Recent research [11, 10, 5] has used the term underspecification to describe this strategy. The key