Towards an interlingual treatment of modality
Christoph Neumann · 1999
Modality is an important, but complex lin-guistic phenomenon that concerns all levels of language production. NLP research has rather refrained from this subject, but we show that many errors in machine translation systems are directly related to the absence of a proper interlingual treatment of modality. We outline the traces of such a modal interlingua by pre-senting the “Module of Modality”, parts of which are currently being implemented in a Japanese-English system. 1