Disambiguating temporal-contrastive discourse connectives for machine translation
Thomas Meyer · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 2011
Temporal–contrastive discourse connectives (although, while, since, etc.) signal various types of relations between clauses such as tem-poral, contrast, concession and cause. They are often ambiguous and therefore difficult to translate from one language to another. We discuss several new and translation-oriented experiments for the disambiguation of a spe-cific subset of discourse connectives in order to correct some of the translation errors made by current statistical machine translation sys-tems. 1