PhD in Computer Science

Alignment issues in parallel multilingual treebanks: a case study

Academic year 2012/2013

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Course objectives

The usefulness of parallel corpora in translation studies and machine

translation is strictly related to the availability of aligned data. We

discuss the issues related to the design of a tool for the alignment of

data from a parallel treebank, which takes into account syntactic

knowledge as annotated in this kind of resource. A preliminary analysis

is presented which is based on a case study, a parallel treebank for

Italian, English and French, i.e. ParTUT. We will focus, in particular,

on the study of translational divergences and their implications for

the development of an alignment tool of parallel parse trees that,

benefitting from the linguistic information provided in ParTUT, could

properly deal with such divergences.

Class schedule

Note

Seminar held by Manuela Sanguinetti, PhD Student.

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