Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation
<|reference_start|>Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation: This paper proposes an analysis of classifiers into four major types: UNIT, METRIC, GROUP and SPECIES, based on properties of both Japanese and English. The analysis makes possible a uniform and straightforward treatment of noun phrases headed by classifiers in Japanese-to-English machine translation, and has been implemented in the MT system ALT-J/E. Although the analysis is based on the characteristics of, and differences between, Japanese and English, it is shown to be also applicable to the unrelated language Thai.<|reference_end|>
@article{bond1996classifiers,
    title={Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation},
    author={Francis Bond (NTT), Kentaro Ogura (NTT), Satoru Ikehara (Tottori
  University)},
    journal={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational
  Linguistics (COLING'96), pp 125--130.},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9608014},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}