Collocations in Knowledge Based Machine Translation.
Guðrún Magnúsdóttir · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 1989
In order to generate colloquial language within the computational lin guistics paradigm the problems o f co-occurrence must be solved.As of yet research on co-occurrence has mostly focused on problems of syntax and selectional restrictions to describe the contextual relation within the sentence.Collocations and idioms have been neatly put aside as a unified problem to be dealt with in the lexicon or not at all.In this paper collocations are defined according to the principles of semantics and a suggestion as to how to work on the retrieval of coUoca^ tions, focussing on adjective noun constructions, from a text corpus will be made.The research was carried out at the Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, together with Sergei Nirenburg and heavily inspired by Professor AUen's (Allén et al's 1975) work on collocations.