Syntactic mismatches in machine translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-138

  Mel'čuk, Igor ^a   Wanner, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep syntactic structure; Meaning text theory; Paraphrasing; Syntactic mismatch; Transfer

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; PATTERN MATCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXT PROCESSING;

SENTENCE STRUCTURES; SOURCE LANGUAGES; SYNTACTIC MISMATCHES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 33947680633     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-006-9013-7     Document Type: Article

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