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Translating into Free Word Order Languages

1996/04/29 by Beryl Hoffman, Hoffman, Beryl
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Speech and dialogue systems #cmp-lg #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9604020

COLING 1996, latex, 6 pages, colap = aclap = eaclap.sty

arxiv created 1996/04/29 · openalex publication_date 1996/04/29 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss machine translation of English text into Turkish, a relatively ``free'' word order language. I present algorithms that determine the topic and the focus of each target sentence (using salience (Centering Theory), old vs. new information, and contrastiveness in the discourse model) in order to generate the contextually appropriate word orders in the target language.

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