Valence Frames Used for Syntactic Disambiguation in the EUROTRA-DK Model.
Boel Victoria Bøggild-Andersen · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 1989
The EEC Machine Translation Programme E U RO TRA is a multi lingual, transfer-based, module-structured machine translation project.The result of the analysis, the interface structure, is bcised on a dependency grammar combined with a frame theory.The valency frames, specified in the lexicon, enable the grammar to analyse or generate the sentences.If information about the syntactical structure of the slot fillers is added to the lexicon, certain erroneous analyses may be discarded exclusively on a syntactical basis, and complex transfer may in some cases be avoided.Where semantic tind syntactical differences are related, problems of am biguity may be solved as well.This will be exemplified, and the frame theory will be explained.The paper concentrates on the valency of verbs; according to the E U RO TRA theory the verb is the governor o f a sentence.