Linguistic bases for machine translation
Christian Röhrer · 1986
My aim in organizing this panel is to stimulate the discussion between researchers working on MT and linguists interested in formal syntax and semantics.I am convinced that a closer cooperation will be fruitful for both sides.I will be talking about experimental MT or MT as a research project and not as a development project.[l ] A. The relation between MT and theoretical linguistics Researchers in MT do not work with linguistic theories which are 'on vogue' today.The two special issues on MT of the journal Computational Linguistics (CL 1985) contain eight contributions of the leading teams.In the bibliography of these articles you don't find names like Chomsky, Montague, Bresnan, Gazdar, Kamp, Barwise, Perry etc.[2] Syntactic theories like GB, GPSG, LFG are not mentioned (with one exception: R. Johnson et al. (1985 0.165) praise I.FG for its 'perspicuous notation', but do not (or not yet) incorporate ideas from LFG into their theory of MT).There arc no references whatsoever to recent semantic theories.