Anaphora resolution, collocations and translation
Éric Wehrli, Luka Nerima · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 2018
Abstract Collocation identification and anaphora resolution are widely recognised as major issues for natural language processing, and particularly for machine translation. This paper focuses on their intersection domain, that is verb-object collocations in which the object has been pronominalised. To handle such cases, an anaphora resolution procedure must link the direct object pronoun to its antecedent. The identification of a collocation can then be made on the basis of the verb and its object or its antecedent. Results obtained from the translation of a large corpus will be discussed, as well as an evaluation of the precision of the anaphora resolution procedure for this specific task.