Dictionary organization for machine translation
Mary McGee Wood, Elaine Pollard, Heather Horsfall, Natsuko Holden, Brian J. Chandler, Jeremy J. Carroll · 1987
The organization of a dictionary system raises significant questions for all natural language processing applications. We concentrate here on three with specific reference to machine translation: the optimum grain-size for lexical entries, the division of information about separate languages, and the level of abstraction appropriate to the task of translation. These are discussed, and the solutions implemented in the UMIST English-Japanese translation project are described and illustrated in detail.