HIERARCHICAL LEXICAL STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETIVE MAPPING IN MACHINE TRANSLATION.pdfVIP

H I E R A R C H I C A L L E X I C A L S T R U C T U R E AND I N T E R P R E T I V E M A P P I N G IN M A C H I N E T R A N S L A T I O N Teruko Mitamura Eric H. Nyberg HI C e n t e r fo r M a c h i n e T rans l a t i on C e n t e r f o r M a c h i n e T r a n s l a t i o n C a r n e g i e M e l l o n Un ive r s i t y C a r n e g i e M e l l o n U n i v e r s i t y P i t t sbu rgh , PA 15213 U S A P i t t sburgh , PA 1 5 2 1 3 U S A t e r u k o @ c s . c m u . e d u e h n @ c s . c m u . e d u Abstract Large-scale knowledge-based machine translation requires significant amounts of lexical knowledge in order to map syntactic structures to conceptual structures. Tfiis paper presents a framework in which lexical knowledge is separated into differ- ent levels of representation, which are arranged in a hierarchical model based on principles of knowl- edge representation and lexical semantics. The pro- posed methodology is language-independent, and has been used to organize lexical knowledge for both English and Japanese. 1 Introduction The basic premise of knowledge-based machine translation is that accurate, high-quality translation requires a complete se- mantic interpretation of the input text (Carbonell and Tomita, 1987). Therefore, the analysis and generation components of a knowlodge-based MT system must have at least the follow- ing functional parts: a grammar for the language, a lexicon for the language, a shared set of domain concepts, and rules that map syntactic structures onto semantic structures (or vice- versa for generation). .The goal of our work has been to develop a methodology for the hierarchical organization of lexical knowledge (lexical en- tries and mapping rules) for knowledge-based MT (Goodman and Nirenburg, 1991; Mitamura, 1989). Interpretive Map- ping refers to the relationship between predicate conceptual structures and syntactic structures, and involves two kinds of processes: one