An integrated environment for extracting and translating collocations
Violeta Seretan · Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) · 2009
This paper describes the way collocations, which constitute an important part of the multi-word lexicon of a language, are integrated into a multilingual parser and into a machine translation system.Different processing modules concur to ensure an appropriate treatment for collocations, from their automatic acquisition to their actual use in parsing and translation.The main concerns are, first, to cope with the syntactic flexibility characterising collocations, and second, to make sure that the collocation phenomenon is modelled in a rather comprehensive manner.The paper discusses, in particular, issues such as the necessity to extract collocations from syntactically parsed text (rather than from raw text), the identification of collocations consisting of more than two words, the detection of translation equivalents in parallel texts, and the issue of representing collocational information in a lexical database.The processing framework built represents an unprecedented environment that provides an advanced and comprehensive treatment for collocations.