{"title":"Noun-Noun Compound Machine Translation A Feasibility Study on Shallow Processing","authors":"Takaaki Tanaka, Timothy Baldwin","doi":"10.3115/1119282.1119285","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The translation of compound nouns is a major issue in machine translation due to their frequency of occurrence and high productivity. Various shallow methods have been proposed to translate compound nouns, notable amongst which are memory-based machine translation and word-to-word compositional machine translation. This paper describes the results of a feasibility study on the ability of these methods to translate Japanese and English noun-noun compounds.","PeriodicalId":354703,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions analysis, acquisition and treatment -","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"68","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions analysis, acquisition and treatment -","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1119282.1119285","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The translation of compound nouns is a major issue in machine translation due to their frequency of occurrence and high productivity. Various shallow methods have been proposed to translate compound nouns, notable amongst which are memory-based machine translation and word-to-word compositional machine translation. This paper describes the results of a feasibility study on the ability of these methods to translate Japanese and English noun-noun compounds.