Translational Equivalence and Cross-lingual Parallelism: The Case of FrameNet Frames
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Annotation projection is a strategy for the cross-lingual transfer of annotations which can be used to bootstrap linguistic resources for low-density languages, such as role-semantic databases similar to FrameNet. In this paper, we investigate the main assumption underlying annotation projection, cross-lingual parallelism, which states that annotation is parallel across languages. Concentrating on the level of frames, we provide a qualitative and quantitative characterisation of the relationship between translation and cross-lingual parallelism on the basis of a trilingual English–French– German corpus. We link frame (non)-parallelism to different kinds of translational shifts and show that a simple heuristic can detect the majority of such shifts.
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