Capturing Language-Specific Semantic Distinctions in Interlingua-based MT
James A. Barnett, Inderjeet Mani, Elaine A. Rich, Chinatsu Aone, Kevin K. Knight, Juan Carlos Martínez · 1991
We describe an interlingua-based approach to machine translation, in which a DRS represen-tation of the source text is used as the inter-lingua representation. A target DRS is then created and used to construct the target text. We describe several advantages of this level of representation. We also argue that problems of translation mismatch and divergence should properly bo viewed not as translation problems per se but rather as generation problems, al-though the source text can be used to guide the target generator. The system we have built relics exclusively on monolingual linguistic de-scriptions that are also, for the most part, bi-