Towards the automatic acquisition of lexical selection rules
Jin Yang · 1999
This paper is a study of a certain type of collocations and implication and applica-tion to acquisition of lexical selection rules in transfer-approach MT systems. Collo-cations reveal the co-occurrence possibil-ities of linguistic units in one language, which often require lexical selection rules to enhance the natural flow and clarity of MT output. The study presents an auto-matic acquisition and human verification process to acquire collocations and sug-gest possible candidates for lexical selec-tion rules. The mechanism has been used in the development and enhancement of the Chinese-English and Japanese-English MT systems, and can be easily adapted to other language pairs. Future work in-cludes expanding its usage to more lan-guage pairs and furthering its application to MT customers.