Pragmatics in machine translation
Annely Rothkegel · 1986
TEXAN is a system of transfer-oriented text analysis. Its linguistic concept is based on a communicative approach within the framework of speech act theory. In this view texts are considered to be the result of linguistic actions. It is assumed that they control the selection of translation equivalents. The transtion of this concept of linguistic actions (text acts) to the model of computer analysis is performed by a context-free illocution grammar processing categories of actions and a propositional structure of states of affairs. The grammar which is related to a text lexicon provides the connection of these categories and the linguistic surface units of a single language.