A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text
<|reference_start|>A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text: Colloquial English (CE) as found in television programs or typical conversations is different than text found in technical manuals, newspapers and books. Phrases tend to be shorter and less sophisticated. In this paper, we look at some of the theoretical and implementational issues involved in translating CE. We present a fully automatic large-scale multilingual natural language processing system for translation of CE input text, as found in the commercially transmitted closed-caption television signal, into simple target sentences. Our approach is based on the Whitelock's Shake and Bake machine translation paradigm, which relies heavily on lexical resources. The system currently translates from English to Spanish with the translation modules for Brazilian Portuguese under development.<|reference_end|>
@article{popowich1997a,
    title={A Lexicalist Approach to the Translation of Colloquial Text},
    author={Fred Popowich, Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, J.
  Devlan Nicholson, Patrick McGivern, Maricela Corzo Pena, Lisa Pidruchney, and
  Scott MacDonald (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada; TCC
  Communications, Victoria, Canada)},
    journal={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theoretical
  Issues in Machine Translation (TMI '97), Santa Fe, NM, 23-25 July 1997.},
    year={1997},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9706024},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}