Underspecified Japanese Semantics in a Machine Translation System.
Björn Gambäck, Christian Lieske, Yoshiki Mori · 1996
Semantic representations which are underspecified with respect to, for example, scope, have recently attracted much attention. Most research in this area has focused on treating English language phenomena in a theoretical fashion. Our paper deviates from this twofold: We take Japanese as the language of our investigations and describe how our ideas about underspecified Japanese semantics (e.g., on modality adverbs) have been implemented in a spoken-language machine translation system.