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Publication details [#9286]
Attali, Arlette, Guy Bourquin, Marie-Christine Bourquin-Launey, Annette Euvrard and Christiane Vigroux. 1992. Aide au transfert lexical dans une perspective de TAO : experimentation sur un lexique non-terminologique [An aid to the lexical transfer in the perspective of MAT: experiments on a non-terminological lexicon]. In Cormier, Monique C. and Dominique Estival, eds. Études et recherches en traductique [Studies and researches in machine translation]. Special issue of Meta. Journal des Traducteurs, Translators' Journal 37 (4): 770–790. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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Article in Special issue
Publication language
French
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Abstract
Is it possible to devise an automatic procedure that could become part of an MAT programme and at the same time be used independently by a human translator? The present paper is an attempt to deal with a specific problem in lexical transfer: translating English and Spanish verbs into French. Through a systematic investigation of verbal contexts (valency-frames, word meanings) semantic classes are empirically defined and common semantic labels assigned to lexical units associated with each target-equivalent of the source verb. A tentative list of such classes is being drawn up. It is assumed that the semantic class of a subject and/or object (possibly adjunct) lexical unit can help find out the adequate translation of the source verb. Semantico-cognitive descriptors thus become part of the transfer-dictionary decision making. Being more especially based on lexical verb/valency associations, such a dictionary might also be of some help to a human translator.
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