Defining the Lexical Component in Interlinguas
Clare R. Voss, Bonnie Jean Dorr · 1995
As discussed by Dorr and Voss (1993, 1994), machine translation (MT) theory has not addressed the issues urrounding how the interlingua (IL) of a MT system should be defined or evaluated. This has a direct bearing on the decisions developers make with respect o the construction f a lexicon for MT. We view the IL as two distinct components: the declarative portion, which we call the Lexical Component; and the procedural portion, which we call the Pivot-Form Component. The former component is a collection fentries from each natural anguage lexicon of the MT system. The latter component is the set of algorithms u ed to compose and decompose the full IL pivot form. 2