{"pk":30761,"title":"Lexical Conceptual Structure and Generation in Machine Translation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an implemented scheme for generating target-language sentences using a compositional representation of meaning called lexical conceptual structure. Lexical conceptual structure facilitates two crucial operations associated with generation: lexical selection and syntactic realization. The compositional nature of\" the representation is particularly valuable for these two operations when semantically equivalent source- and target-language words and phrases are structurally or thematically divergent. For example, the English verb to stab may be translated as the composite Spanish form dar cuchilladas a (literally, to knife or to give knife-wounds to). To determine the correct lexical items and syntactic realization associated with the surface form in such cases, the underlying lexical-semantic forms are systematically mapped to the target language syntactic structures. The mode described constitutes a lexical-semantic extension to UNITRAN,a syntactic-based translation system that is bidirectional between Spanish and English.'","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qh8r3nn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bonnie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dorr","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1989-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30761/galley/20610/download/"}]}