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Semantic transfer

For translation, the most important consumer is the transfer component. The semantic transfer has to cope with many ambiguities that remain after syntactic/semantic analysis concerning mainly discourse particles and verbs. For disambiguation they use dialogue act and focused object, e.g. in the case of the English verb go which can be translated to gehen (walk), fahren (drive) or fliegen (fly). Here the class of the focused object (PLANE, RAIL, BUS) provides sufficient information to determine a unique reading.



Jan Alexandersson
Thu Nov 11 15:15:06 MET 1999