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Flickinger, Dan, Jan Tore Lønning, Helge Dyvik, Stephan Oepen and Francis Bond. 2005. SEM-I rational MT: enriching deep grammars with a semantic interface for scalable Machine Translation. In Isahara, Hitoshi, ed. The tenth Machine Translation summit. 8 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English

Abstract

In the LOGON machine translation system where semantic transfer using Minimal Recursion Semantics is being developed in conjunction with two existing broad-coverage grammars of Norwegian and English, the authors motivate the use of a grammar-specific semantic interface (SEM-I) to facilitate the construction and maintenance of a scalable translation engine. The SEM-I is a theoretically grounded component of each grammar, capturing several classes of lexical regularities while also serving the crucial engineering function of supplying a reliable and complete specification of the elementary predications the grammar can realize. Extensive use is made of underspecification and type hierarchies to maximize generality and precision.
Source : Based on abstract in book