AUTOMATIC CREATION OF A SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION OF A TARGET LANGUAGE

摘要

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for creating a semantic description of a target language having full language descriptions of a source language. Parallel text of a source language and a target language is aligned such that text in the source language is correlated to text in the target language. The text in the source language is parsed to construct a syntactic structure, comprising a lexical element, and a semantic structure, of the source language. A hypothesis is generated about a lexical element of the target language that corresponds to the lexical element of the source language. The lexical element of the target language is compared, based on the hypothesis, to the corresponding lexical element of the source language. A syntactic model for the lexical element of the target language is associated with a syntactic model for the lexical element of the source language.

主权项

1. A method of creating a semantic description of a target language, comprising:
aligning, using a processing device, parallel text of a source language and a target language such that text in the source language is correlated to text in the target language; parsing the text in the source language to construct a syntactic structure and a semantic structure of a sentence in the source language, wherein the syntactic structure comprises a lexical element of the source language, and wherein the semantic structure comprises a language-independent representation of the sentence in the source language; using a translation dictionary to generate a hypothesis about a lexical element of the target language that corresponds to the lexical element of the source language; comparing the lexical element of the target language to the corresponding lexical element of the source language, wherein the comparison is based on the hypothesis; and associating, based on the comparison, a syntactic model for the lexical element of the target language with a syntactic model for the lexical element of the source language.