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Abstract : |
This paper describes the use of verb class memberships as a means of capturing generalizations about manner-of-motion verbs in Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars, STAGs, [20, 21, 22]. This approach allows STAGs, which are essentially transfer-based, to take advantage of the same types of generalizations which are generally thought of as wholly the domain of interlingua systems- without giving up any of the lexical specificity unique to transfer-based systems. In this way a machine translation system based on STAGs can respond with seamless flexibility to a wide spectrum of phenomena being presented for translation ranging from idioms and idiosyncratic lexical items to well-behaved verbs that follow lexical rules. 1, |
