Zero Anaphora in Chinese and How to Process it in Chinese-English MT
Sun Jian-jun · Zhongwen xinxi xuebao · 2005
Anaphora is an important means of discourse cohesion, and zero anaphora is a common anaphora in Chinese. From typological viewpoint, there are some differences between Chinese and English, thus zero anaphora may influence the quality of Chinese-English MT. This paper analyzes the recognition, classification, and produced cause and service condition of the zero anaphora in Chinese in detail. The author points out that the problem makes the generated sentences of target language (English) ungrammatical. Some algorithms are given based on the level of sentence group.